The grub command line is an inscrutable mystery to the uninitiated, but once you understand the basics, it’s not terribly difficult to boot your system and try to restore the normal boot process.

The Linux boot loader though (called Grub), usually defaults to booting Linux. If you'd prefer to have Windows boot up by default, here's how to change it: ...

In the first line, you define what kernel to boot and what options to pass it, and in the following line, you point GRUB to the initrd file you want it to use. The main difference here though is that ...

If you want to boot into a live Linux environment but don't have a blank CD or thumb drive handy, you can actually boot right from your hard drive using GRUB and previously mentioned Unetbootin ...

The 4th time this happened, I dropped into a GRUB prompt instead of initramfs.. and I had no idea what to do as I couldn't run pretty much any system command (especially fsck).

right now the Linux one, if I try to boot from the other one I get a grub command line.<BR><BR>Booting from the Linux drive gets me the grub boot menu ...