[NBLUG/talk] Grub and Windows XP

[Murdock, Matt]

I know this has been beat to death, but, I must have done something wrong.
	I have a Red Hat Linux 9.0 installed on first 1/2 of a 60gb disk. XP
on the 2nd Half. XP boots o.k. because it took over the MBR.
When I boot linux rescue and chroot /mnt/sysimage, I then Fdisk /dev/hda and
toggled the linux partition to be active and went to issue the w to write,
but got a error message saying device or resource is busy. and then exited.
I re-run fdisk and the active partition flag is set (on both linux and
Windows Partitions). I made the changes as stated below, ran the command
grub without any options and it sayed it was busy probing bios drives, so I
rebooted the computer and get a Invalid Partition Table. 
 I edited the grub.conf and added the following at the bottom before the
grub command was issued (you had to run lilo -v after making changes to
lilo.conf so I thought you had to do the same with Grub).

title Windows XP
root (hd0, X-2) ---> The windows XP partition is on /dev/hda3 (hda1=/, and
hda2=swap, hda3=NTFS or HPFS, as seen from fdisk).
makeactive
chainloader +1
	Is there a chance of recovery? How do I properly setup the grub.conf
file? And do I issue anything else after the editing?

Matthew R. Murdock
Senior Systems/Network Admin./H.A.Admin.
Brooks Automation
5245 W. Yeager Rd.
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
801-736-3340