Will not boot with multiple hard drives/OS's Kubuntu 6.06.1 32 bit

After giving up on this distro, would like to submit the problem which led me to return to openSUSE.

Motherboard: ASUS A8V deluxe
Proc: A64 -3000+
# physical drives: 5

Have openSUSE installed on hda
Have WinXP installed on sdd
Have data drives installed sda, sdb through promise chip, which works just fine in openSUSE

Set sdc to be bootable in bios.

Installed Kubuntu on sdc, primary partitions:
sdc1= 2 GB swap
sdc3 = 3 GB /boot
sdc4 = 84 GB /
sdc2 = 140 GB /home

Grub error 17 or 22 (depending on what stage of the 8 hours of fruitless labour put into this excercise) when system reboots.

I originally installed without a seperate boot partiion, with the same resulting error.

Reinstalling grub has no effect. Neither does editing menu.lst - but why should one have to do this - it should "just work", right? Installing an OS on a computer with multiple hard drives should not require rocket-science (and if it does, people will just use other better-engineered distros like openSUSE).

Installation will only succeed if all other drives are disconnected beforehand and reinstalled on a single HD.
Connecting up the other drives and editing menu.lst afterward when other drives connected did not allow system to boot.

The same problem (no user control over where Kubuntu places grub) led to previous problems on another machine with 2 drives. I was planning on transferring data, so left both drives installed and set the sda drive to boot, and installed on sda. Later, upon removing hda, found that Kubuntu had elected (unprompted by myself) to install grub on hda. Had to reinstall Kubuntu again with only one drive on the system to get it to work.

Perhaps the contributor who is responsible for the Kubuntu installer could reconsider the options provided to the user? It is nice to offer simplified _streamlined_ installation options if this results in a successful boot of the OS. If it doesn't, and the user in not provided with any control over the results, the OS CD gets dropped in the garbage can in favour of something else that will work correctly. In particular, some dialog on booting other OS's thru grub would be appropriate. Others have found their windows MBR damaged by Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

Other than not being able to install it half of the time, I do like the way the OS handles when it is operating, and would like to try it again if this bug in the installer can be fixed.