Reinstalled Windows & Grub, but windows wont boot... help!

Andrew Konosky TerranAce007 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 3 20:05:27 UTC 2005


I reformatted my windows 98 C: drive (/dev/hda1) and installed WinXP, 
and of course it overwrote grub. I put in the FC3 dvd and did 
grub-install /dev/hda but it said it couldn't find /sbin/grub. I tried 
the knoppix cd, entered the grub prompt, and set grub up with these 
commands:

#: root (hd1,0)    --> hdb1 is my Fedora /boot and hdv2 is the LVM with /
#: setup (hd0,0)

Now my grub screen comes back up, and I can boot both my fedora and 
debian installations, but WindowsXP just returns me to the grub screen. 
I tried doing it by the grub command line but it does the same thing. 
How to I get XP to boot?

Here is my grub.conf:
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd1,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
password --md5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

title WindowsXP
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 quiet
    initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img

title Fedora Core (2.6.9-CUSTOM)
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /bzImage-2.6.9_custom ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 quiet
    initrd /initrd-2.6.9_custom.img

title Debian Linux Menu
    rootnoverify (hd0,3)
    chainloader +1

title Memtest86+ v1.40
    kernel /memtest86+-1.40
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