[Orangeyness]

Hi there, I'm new to Linux, and have recently installed ubuntu. It was working beautifully and I was quite impressed. How ever I tried to install Vista on one of my other hard drives and set up a dual boot. Vista installed failed, not detecting one of my drives and not finding any it deems suitable, even after I formatted one of them... Anyway I'm not really worried about that, my problem is ever since then I have been greeted by "grub error 17" when I attempt to boot. Now I am forced to boot from the live cd. I have tried editing my menu.lst, device.map, resetting the root and so on, but I haven't made much progress.

Heres what fdisk -l say,

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbd55b35a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x62d69df4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488381440 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5261c5b0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 18662 149902483+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 18663 19457 6385837+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 18663 19457 6385806 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdd: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfcf9c4c3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS

My menu.lst file currently is,

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=24b5580e-df2f-42e5-89$
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic root=UUID=24b5580e-df2f-42e5-89$
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04.2, memtest86+
root (hd2,0)

Any Help?
Thanks.