Linked by Christian Paratschek on Thu 27th May 2004 16:00 UTC
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I have not yet installed Fedora 2, but had recently the same problem with Debian Sid (with 2.6.5). Like you, couldn't boot XP, couldn't reinstall XP, tried FIXMBR, used fdisk & cfdisk to format my HD and create partitions and still failed to reinstall XP. The next thing I did was a base Debian Sid install, execute the command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 to wipe the mbr which finally cured the mess.