Need some help, messed up bootloader...

[hibbijo]

EDIT!: Okay so here's what I did to fix it:

Downloaded the 10.5.5 VMware workstation file from this forum got it up and running and attatched my physical hard drive that has my SL install on it to the VM. Backed up my Extra folder. From there I used Stell's UD3P v3 installer(as I had before) to reinstall chameleon, than I fixed up the extra folder to have the correct kexts(deleted a file and replaced the extra folder with the back up, if you're wondering why it's because I have a similar mobo but not the exact one) rebooted and worked like a charm typing this on my SL as we speak! I don't know what I would do without it haha....

 

 

 

 

 

So here's my whole story:

I originally ran Win7 on my one hard drive, I bought a second HDD and put SL on it and had chameleon to manage the two, and everything worked great. My hard drives were set up like this:

1st HDD: Snow leopard

2st HDD: Win 7

Some time goes on I'm using both everything's working great and I began to test Ubuntu 10.04 in a VM in SL, I liked it a lot and wanted to test it out on my actual hardware to see how well it performed. After spending roughly 4 hours trying to install a persistent 10.04 on a flash drive I figured I would just put it on my 2nd hard drive. So I boot up into the ubuntu installer and shrink my Win7 partition a little to make another partition for ubuntu, install on the 2nd partition(I really probably should have unplugged my SL HD, heh hindsight bias) and when i reboot nothing happens. If I boot the first HDD(SL) it just hangs and if I leave it on long enough it says: "Missing Operating System", if I boot the 2nd HDD, it boots into windows 7.

 

So now here is my question, if I put a bootloader onto a usb thumb drive, and boot the thumb drive, could I gain access to my SL OS? And from inside the SL OS could I reinstall chameleon on to the 1st HDD(Mac HD) and hope it boots it just fine?

 

Or is my reasoning at this totally wrong and am I going to have to totally redo everything? And if I have to re-install could I somehow back up my snowleopard OS and reinstall using that? I forgot what its called but I know its possible to install with an existing OS. Any help would be appreciated...

EDIT: I'd also like to mention I only have access to Win7 atm and it's been extremely hard to find a bootloader that I can get running in windows....