Ubuntu Grub Boot Trouble

[syke]

Posting on behalf of a mate:

"on boot i get a grub error 17. i know what caused the problem its in the grub menu.lst where i was trying to get it to have an option for booting windows. i just need to get back into ubuntu to delete the entry. sp i think i need to go around grub? i have 2 hard drives one has windows 98. the other ubuntu desktop 6.06. i have unplugged the windows one for now just so i dont mess it up like i did earlier on today. any ideas on how to go around grub or how to boot into ubuntu?

when i boot it says:

GRUB loading stage 1.5.


GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17"

Any ideas lads?

s-

 

[Scythe]

Do you still have the Ubuntu live cd?
You can try to startup with the live CD and mount your /
Then you can edit your grub menu.
I don't know if there is a simpler way of doing this.
You should edit a line for windows like this:

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

Ofcourse you should use your own parameters for /dev/hda1 and the type of Windows.