Boot Fedora as 2nd OS

[Chiu, PCM (Peter)]

On a PC with a 20GB partition hda1 running RH9, I mounted
fedoar core 1 on hda2, another 20GB partition.

After the installation, the PC reboots, but get stuck at the GRUB> prompt.

I booted off the linux rescue mode, edited the grub.conf file to replace 
all references of root=LABEL=/1 by root=/dev/hda2, grub-install /dev/hda,
the PC now stuck at

GRUB Error 17.

I then reverted back to RH 9 on hda1 (linux rescue, chroot hda1 and
grub-install
to reset the MBR), edited the grub.conf to added the lines

title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp)
	root (hd0,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp ro root=/dev/hda2 rhgb
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
	root (hd0,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=/dev/hda2 rhgb 
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img

Now it complains:
GRUB Error 18: the selected cylinder exceeds the maximum supported by BIOS

On a 2-3 years old PC with ASUS CUV4 motherboard, with latest BIOS 1016 Beta
1.
>From the BIOS, I did try to select Primary master -> type: HDD -> LBA:
LARGE,
but no help.

Can we specify get GRUB to access directly the appropriate partition?
I thought GRUB is capable to handle this situation back to RH 7.3.