Dual boot FC2 / WinXP hangs

[M. Yep]

Hello all,

I have had the problem with FC2 dual booting with WinXP.
There is tons of info on the web for this, but I tried the fix, and it
still fails.

This is what I did:

I had WinXP already on my machine.  Here is the partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2432    19531701    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2432        6323    31250677+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda3            6323        6335      102312   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            6335       14594    66334464    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            6335        8885    20480008+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            8885       10160    10239736+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           10160       10421     2097112+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8           10421       14594    33517480+  83  Linux

I installed FC2_64 (full install) and then grub locks up when booting
into WinXP

I ran the command sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda
--force

and I also zeroed out the first 512 bytes of /dev/hda2 because of
sfdisk's recommendation.

The computer still hangs when trying to boot WinXP.

Any help would be great.

Michael Yep
RemoteLink, Inc.
Technical Operations / Development