Dual Boot XP/FC2 Install Problem

[Richard Heldmann]

>
>> > I am trying to install FC2 on a Dell Dimension 8300, with a Seagate 
>> > Model ST3120026AS SATA 120Gb hard drive.
>> >  The controller is an Intel 82801ED Ultra ATA Storage Controller.  I 
>> > have repartioned the drive with Partition Magic
>> > and formatted the last 20Gb as ext2.  There are no errors on either 
>> > partition and the machine boots into XP normally.
>> >  Upon starting the installation with the known geometry,
>> >
>> > boot: linux hda=14589,255,63
>>
>> Why do you pass it the CHS geometry? Don't.
>
>>oops - maybe too late already :| I did miss your subject along with the
>>boot details. But are you really hit by the dual boot problem? Do you
>>just want to prevent? The errors in your mail seem to indicate a very
>>different problem.
>
> I tried an install this past weekend, and the machine gave me the same
> error message when I loaded the CHS geometry(I was trying to avoid
> the dual boot bug).
>
> Without the CHS geometry, the install proceeds fine, but when finished, I
> can't boot XP.  I could boot into Fedora and into the Dell Diagnostic
> Utility hidden partition.  As I remember, the Dell Utility hidden 
> partition was given as
> (hd0,0).  So I thought I could just modify the grub.conf file to (hd0,1),
> to access the XP partition, but that file did not save correctly.  So I 
> thought
> I had a bad partition table.  I could not access my hard drive with the 
> Fedora
> Rescue disk and could not issue the command:
> sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda
> or the command fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> I ended up using: fdisk /mbr and that allowed me to boot back into XP. 
> One
> other thing I have noticed since then, is that my Knoppix 3.6 CD can read 
> my
> hard disk.  The command: fdisk -l /dev/hda works and the command
> sfdisk  -d /dev/hda also works.  I don't know if I can write to it.
>

I have changed the switch in the BIOS from on to off for IDE DRIVE UDMA on 
my Seagate 120 GB SATA drive.  When entering the CHS data on initial boot, I 
changed hda to sda:
boot: linux sda 14589,255,63

I do not get an error, Fedora seems to think I have a scsi drive?  Is it ok 
to proceed?