Grub doesn't actually boot from a RAID - it just happens to work because RAID1 looks the same on the underlying single partitions. Boot with the CD and point the grub config to one or the other of the hd partitions holding /boot. If you get an error, that one might be corrupt and you can try the other. If you get to the point where the kernel is loaded and you can't mount root, then the problem could be with RAID, but that part will probably work.
I always use lilo for mirrored servers. It will boot from either drive when one fails.