<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I had gotten this error myself,and all i did was reinstall Ubuntu over the "messed up" one on the same partition it was on and that took care of grub too <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ---- From: Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum@gmail.com> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:23:42 AM Subject: Re: GRUB "Error 22" <DIV>Chanchao : > Well that's helpful. > > Try to boot up after removing Ubuntu and it just comes up as > > "GRUB loading, please wait" > Error 22 > > Then nothing. > Question : what do you mean by removing Ubuntu ? As far as I know there is no way to cleanly remove Ubuntu (or any distribution ). By cleanly, I mean *uninstall*. > So, understandable, but not acceptable. Especially the short, cryptic > and unhelpful error message. I know there's not a whole lot of space > for all of Grub's fanciness in the MBR itself, but surely there's space > for a message like: > > "Your linux partition has been removed. This means the Grub boot manager > cannot start. To correct this problem you will need to boot from your > Operating System Installation CD. If your operating system is MS > Windows, then boot the Windows Installation CD. You do still have your > Windows Install CD don't you? And you actually do have a CD drive in > your computer, otherwise you're truly up crap's creek without a CD > drive. Anyway, please boot from the Windows installation CD, start up in > Recovery mode, then enter the commands 'FixMBR' and 'FixBoot'. That > should take care of things. Sad to see you go." > > Chanchao > Actually I think that your problem here is not GRUB, but it's the way you removed your distro (Ubuntu) . What you want is an Ubuntu uninstaller. Sometimes, users create a */boot* partition. So even after removing Ubuntu like you did, grub would launch. In that case, after removing Ubuntu, Grub can't get to the conclusion that *Your linux partition has been removed.* Well, What I want to say here is that your problem comes from your *Ubuntu removing policy* . -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com <A href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target=_blank>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</A></DIV></DIV> </DIV></div></body></html>