Problem installing XP home SP2 on MacPro

I am trying to install XP home on a freinds new MacPro. He has 2 Hard drives and needs Linux. We have installed rEFIt.
The partitions are set up as followes
Disk 1
235GB OSX HFS+
40GB Linux Swap to be
200GB Users Directory RAID
Disk 2
40GB Windows NTFS
1GB linux boot 1 to be
1GB linux boot 2 to be
100GB 6 assorted linux partitions
free space
40GB Linux swap to be
200GB Usere Directory swap
I install XP onto the Windows partition and all goes well untill i am called to reboot when i get a "Hard disk error press any key to reboot" message can anyone help. I have tried remooveing rEFIt but it makes no difference.

Interesting, SP2 did not come out until 2004. Anyway, check my post at:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6671247
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