I had a hard disk failure, and I am trying to install mepis 3.4-3rc1 on an 8 gb pen drive. After I installed it I rebooted and instead of booting grub gave me error 17.

Here is the result of fdisk -l and menu.lst
root@1[demo]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 8021 MB, 8021606400 bytes
247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15314 * 512 = 7840768 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 128 980065 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 129 1023 6853015 83 Linux





timeout 15
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1
gfxmenu /boot/grub/message

title MEPIS at sda2, kernel 2.6.15-1-586tsc
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-586tsc root=/dev/sda2 nomce quiet vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-586tsc

title MEMTEST
kernel /boot/memtest86.bin



Is there any fix?

You can insert your Livew Cd and re-install grub.

I got an error message


grub-install /dev/sda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
sed: can't read /boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
grep: /boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
/dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

I was able to install macpup on this drive and boot from it at one point but I accidently rewrote the live cd.

It is an award bios on and amd athlon 2006 model. I can also mount this drive and find /boot/grub/device.map

It says

(hd0) /dev/sda