Grub

[Willis Taylor]

I have a grub/menu.lst on dev/sda16 that i cannot update, Shell only,
and a great installation on dev/sda1 that has updated to the latest
kernel and I do not access it on boot.  I sent the following message to
the local ubuntu team;
    I installed Hardy and then put in the Hardy U-Studio disk.  I now
have
        one totally unusable studio installation that is occupying half
        my hdd
        and I need to recover it.  Gparted reads;
        
        Parition     FS    Mount   Size        used
        /dev/sda1   ext3    /      37.07gb     11.51gb
        /dev/sda2 extended         37.46gb      --
        /dev/sda6   ext3           37.92gb     918.2mb
        /dev/sda7 linux-swap       1.46gb
        /dev/sba5 linux-swap       3,08gb
        
        Can anyone tell me how to get out of this mess and still be able
        to
        boot?
        
the reply was:
Actually, all you need is something that can access grub on the hd this
is on, that way you can delete the entries for linux and simply delete
the partition. This will leave grub on there, but it will work just the
same


As harsh as it seems, will deleting the faulty installation from the
harddrive cause it to default to sda1?