I made another(ext3)partition and for some reason it detected it and all went well.Edited the config file to use grub and from the installer to install it to the mbr.All went well untill I rebooted and grub gives error 17.My FC1 install was lost too(the hda1 was damaged somehow) so now I have the debian type install on one partition and primary doing XP

After re-installing FC1 I tried to chainload the partition with knoppix but just said it doesnt recognise the command.Tried making an entry for the partition in the device map but that prety much killed grub(just said grub on boot and did othing else).

So now I'm stuck with XP is there anyway I can boot the partition from XP?Thanks you again for any help

Edit:

installed FC1 and trying to boot the partition.All works but says it now giiving "root=/dev/hda3" but it mounts the partition(which ext3) as read-only ext2.The first time I ran it it madea hardware config which I guess didnt go well from all the "read only" messages.Now there's a bunch of them and after it says "enetering runlevel 5" it just stops.No shell, no reboot, no messages, no nothing.

Again thank you for any help