Issue using Grub with WinXP

[Jomy G Joy]

Hi,

I am having a AMD 2000 XP, machine with 256MB RAM, which has Windows XP 
and Redhat Linux 9.0 installed. I am quite a naive user of Linux. I used 
to use the floppy to boot into linux before, which was painful. And 
Windows used to get booted defaultly.

Few days before, I installed Grub as my boot loader, which I loaded to 
the MBR. The installation was done with anaconda, after which the boot 
process used to get stuck at "GRUB Loading Stage 2" message. After quite 
a lot of Googling, I could get it to work to some extend. The state now 
is that, I am able to get into Linux with Grub. But, when I select WinXP 
for booting into, it just comes back to the Grub menu screen again. It 
just continues in this circle. But, anytime I can get into Linux without 
any issue.

I have mounted one of the drives of Windows to Linux, which I am able to 
see from Linux (Data is still safe!). Please help me in debugging this 
problem. I can't afford to lose the data in Windows.

I have one harddisk, which is 40GB in size. It has been partitioned as 
10GB for Windows Installation. 20GB for the second drive for Windows. 
And 10GB for Linux.


Command : fdisk -l
====================

Disk /dev/hda: 40GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sector/track, 4865 cylinders

Units = Cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device         Boot    Start    End        Blocks        Id        System

/dev/hda1      *        1        1275    10241406    c        Win95 
FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2              1276    4864    28828642+    f        Win95 Ext'd 
(LBA)
/dev/hda5              1276    3825    20482843+    7        HPFS / NTFS
/dev/hda6              3826    4798    7815591        83        Linux
/dev/hda7              4799    4863    522081        82        Linux swap




FileName : /boot/grub/grub.conf
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default = 0
timeout = 10
splashimage = (hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title    Linux RH9.0
       root (hd0,5)
       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hda6 rhgb
       initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
      
title    Windows XP
       rootnoverify (hd0,0)
       chainloader +1
      
      


grub> setup (hd0)

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists....... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists....... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists....... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"....... 16 sectors are 
embedded
succeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0) 1+16 p 
(hd0,2)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf....... succeded
Done



Please help me.

Thanks in adance,
Jomy