odd behavior with parted

[Ryan Dooley]

Greetings,

I'm seeing a bit of strange behavior with a 2950 which is configured with a
PERC 5i controller with four, 500GB sata disks behind it.

The host OS is fedora linux (core 6) and the boot loader is grub.

Each disk on the RAID array is configured identically, in fact, the first 3
partitions are being used in a raid-1 configuration.

The partition table looks like this:

Model: DELL PERC 5/i (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  512MB   512MB   primary  ext3         raid
 2      512MB   8704MB  8192MB  primary  linux-swap   raid
 3      8704MB  59.9GB  51.2GB  primary  ext3         raid
 4      59.9GB  500GB   440GB   primary               raid

Now, the first partition is (/boot) and if I set that partition is bootable,
the host doesn't boot at all.  The system appears to freeze during the PERC
initialization just after the number of disks is reported.

If I don't set that partition to be bootable, the system boots just fine.
Anybody else seen this?

Cheers,
Ryan