I had linspire on a hard drive. I partitioned it, formated it, and it boots with "grub loading stage1.5. grub loading, please wait. error 17". How do I repair this?
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Jump to PostDon't bother. The next operating system that you install on the hard drive will almost certainly wipe out the MBR that contains GRUB you're noticing right now.
If you really must do it, boot up the Linspire CD, obtain a root prompt, and enter the following:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda …
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