GRUB error 17. On a USB Pen Drive.

[djwkd]

Dont have the disc. Computer came pre-installed without the windows disc.
How do you fix/delete grub? Im aware that i'll probably have to delete Crunchbang also, but its no use the way it is, so thats fine!

[AmerNewbieInDE]

i had ubuntu running from usb before i put it onto my hd. i had grub on the usb and first boot devise was usb, so when usb was in, it booted to linux and if the usb was not there, then it booted of the hard drive and booted to windows. so i know it works good this way. with the usb in, boot with live cd, open terminal and run sudo grub, then type, find /boot/grub/stage1. it should give output like (hd2,0) or what ever it labeled your usb as. type, root (hd*.*) what ever find showed... then type, setup (hd*) again what ever drive the usb is labled... type quit and reboot.. that should get your linux to boot...

well, no windows disk, the instead of puting grub on the usb, use, setup (hd0) to put grub on the main disk.

[djwkd]

Ok, i tried putting grub on the usb, using setup hd (2), but when i rebooted the all-too-familiar error still showed.
Thankyou, by the way for all you're help so far!

[AmerNewbieInDE]

if you typed "setup hd(2)" and not "setup (hd2)" look at the parentheses. i assume, "find" showed (hd2) for your /boot/grub/stage1, in otherwords, your usb drive?

[djwkd]

Yep. Ok, this isnt working properly, and i need to really try and fix it within 2 hours 15 minutes, so im figuring the easiest way would be to permanently uninstall grub and crumchbang. How would i do this?

[AmerNewbieInDE]

grub is in your mbr, you need windows disk to replace it with a windows boot mbr.. dont get frustrated.. look here...

http://roshan18.wordpress.com/2008/0...b-boot-loader/

[djwkd]

Still get the dreaded 1-7
So theres no way to delete grub without windows? Man thats a sucky bootloader. (No offence, grub developers!). Hmm...If i install grub on the main hard drive, will that damage windows?

[AmerNewbieInDE]

Still get the dreaded 1-7
So theres no way to delete grub without windows? Man thats a sucky bootloader. (No offence, grub developers!). Hmm...If i install grub on the main hard drive, will that damage windows?

no, the boot loader is a small section just before the windows partition.. that is why i mentioned earlier, when you said you didnt have the windows cd, to <setup (hd0)>...

is your usb drive plugged in? (if not, plug it in) goto terminal, type, <sudo fdisk -l> and post the output

i just found this.. maybe it will help..

http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/01/15/ho...ubuntu-livecd/

[djwkd]

Hmm...

sudo apt-get install ms-sys
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ms-sys
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

I've added the universe repository...
Oh, and im on the ubuntu live disc now.

[AmerNewbieInDE]

when you did "find /boot/grub/stage1" what was the output