problem with grub under winxp and Rh 9

From: Dave (davis_eric_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: 26 Dec 2003 23:45:01 -0800

Hi,

Got a problem on grub under winxp and linux 9. My box with winxp and
linux worked fine before I reinstalled winxp. Then not suprisingly, it
wiped out MBR and kicked out linux boot record. I was trying to
reinstall grub to /dev/hda but no luck. Could anyone tell me what's
wrong here?

My partitions are winxp on /dev/hda1 and linux on /dev/hda2. The way I
reinstalled grub is :
1. boot to rescue mode.
2. chroot to /mnt/sysimage
3. run grub-install /dev/hda

my grub.conf under /boot/grub looks like:
default=1
timeout=30
title Red Hat Linux
      root (hd0,2)
      kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
      initrc /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title WindowsXP
      rootnoverify (hd0,0)
      chainloader +1

then I rebooted my machine and I got the message "Grub load stage1.5"
and "Grub loading, please wait". Then the machine just hangs for a
long while with black screen and then winxp boots up, without any
indication on linux's exsitence. I remember previously when the
systems worked, I got "Grub load stage 2" and then a GUI menu to
choose which OS to boot. But it doesn't show this now.

I guess something wrong with the conf. But could someone please point
out what I should do to make the booting correct?

Thanks a lot.

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