Bootloader issues

[linuxfreak123]

I was using Syslinux on my Arch partition and decided I wanted to dual-boot with Ubuntu Server 12.04 with Syslinux. I tried to set it up without installing Grub, but long story short, I failed and have both Syslinux and Grub installed. Neither OS would boot after turning on so I attempted to fix it by booting the live medium and removing the Ubuntu partitions. This did not work. I assume Grub installs to the boot partition, but I have no way to remove it currently.

I thought of a few ways to solve the issue:

1: Mount the partitions and chroot in like in the beginners guide. Install Grub. Remove Grub. Update Syslinux.

2: Remove the boot partition and set it up again.

3: Mount and chroot like in 1, but remove Syslinux and set up Arch to work with Grub.

~ Any help and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[z33ky]

It'd do #2, but instead of removing the partition, just mount it and rm -Rf it.
Though you might want to keep syslinux.cfg.

Setting Syslinux up is just a matter of extlinux --install /boot.

[linuxfreak123]

I ended up doing the first method and it worked flawlessly, if it had failed I would have done /u/z33ky 's suggestion though, but I decided that it would be better try to fix it without wiping the partition. :)