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 ...

I don't normally have to deal with GRUB in my regular Linux usage apart from the boot menu. Since everything's set up correctly on installation, I can just let it be.

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).

On many Linux systems the boot process sees the usual BIOS screen, followed by Grub. The Grand Unified Bootloader (Grub) takes over from our BIOS and offers the user a choice of OS options and ...

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 ...

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