Debian Lenny R710 H700 RAID5 can't find /root to mount

I am trying to install Debian 5.0.8 (Lenny) on a R710 with 6 x 600GB Hitachi drives configured from the factory as RAID5 with a H700 controller.  The drives show up in the Crtl-R accessed application as two virtual drives, 1.9TB and 1.1TB.  During the Lenny installer partition the drives show up again as 1.9 and 1.1 TB.  I partitioned the 1.9TB with 7GB /root, 10GB /home, 10GB /var, all as ext3, and 10GB swap as swap.  Using the Grub legacy bootloader, it can't mount the /dev/

Here's the grub install syslog:

Mar 25 22:52:35 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '(hd0)'
Mar 25 22:52:35 grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Mar 25 22:52:35 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --no-floppy --recheck "(hd0)"
Mar 25 22:52:35 grub-installer: You shouldn't call /sbin/grub-install. Please call /usr/sbin/grub-install instead!
Mar 25 22:52:35 grub-installer: 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Searching for GRUB installation directory ... 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: found: /boot/grub
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: (hd0)	/dev/sdb
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: (hd1)	/dev/sdc
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Searching for GRUB installation directory ... 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: found: /boot/grub
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Searching for default file ... 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: found: /boot/grub/default
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Warning: ignoring deprecated -y option.
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Generating /boot/grub/menu.lst
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Searching for splash image ... 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: none found, skipping ...
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... 
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: done
Mar 25 22:52:36 grub-installer: 

Prior to this I had the same error as below with 'sdb1' instead of the 'sdb'.  This was the install generated value.  I tried changed menu.lst and /etc/fstab to change /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdb .  
When I reboot:
...
Begin: waiting for root file system
...
mount: mounting /dev/sdb on /root failed: no such device

 Could not mount /root file system 

The RAID5 appears as sdb(1.9TB) and sdc(1.1TB).  sda is a USB stick.  What am I doing wrong so that the drive is not recognized during boot.
Thanks!