Dapper Dual-Booting With XP + XFS *AND* grub

[Lord Sauron]

I must sound insane, but this is what I'm attempting to do.

I'm trying to install Dapper from the "alternate" install CD ('cause
the AMD64 "normal" CD wouldn't boot) and then some.

I want to use XFS for everything, however, I only know how to use grub
so I have to use grub, because that allows me to boot XP and screw
around with my Kernel as I'm very wont to do.

HOWEVER, grub barfs at XFS, so I thought I'd try to be clever and
partition my disk thus:

sda1 (XP) ntfs /media/sda1
sda2 (grub) ext3 /boot
sda3 (linux) xfs /
sda4 (swap) linux-swap " "

The space allocation really doesn't matter.

My problem is that I've gone through about three installs and it
refuses to recognize grub.  It just says "NO SYSTEM DISK - INSERT
SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

Of course, it's referring to the hard disk drive (as if I have the
money to get hot-swapables!).

My latest attempt is to make all but sda2 not bootable.  I'm hoping
this will work.  Why I'm asking the list is because I want to
re-verify my hopes that it's possible to have grub work with XFS in
this fashion.  I thought myself rather ingenious to try this, and I'd
like to know whether I have to go use lilo or whether I can actually
expect to be able to use grub.

Any help here would be very much appreciated.

Thanks for lending me your ears!

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