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Dear and expert friends!
First of all, I want to wish you all a very happy new year. That day I sat in front of my dual boot operating system (Linux and Win XP) which has served me extremely well since Mike Walsh helped me set it up in 2019 and was greeted by a strange message that was NOT NORMAL at all. my laptop; this is what I saw and what I did:
GRUB4DOS 0.4.4 20-06-2009, Memory: 639K / 986M, End of menu: 0x48EB8
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
 lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
 completions of a device/filename. ESC at any time exits. ]
grub> (‘grub>’ is followed by a blinking cursor)
=================================================== ==========================
NB The possible commands via the “TAB” key are:
background blocklist boot cat cdrom chainloader checkrange
checktime clear cmp color commandline configfile dd debug default
displaymem embed errnum errorcheck fallback find foreground fstest
geometry stop help hiddenflag hide initrd install is64bit kernel
lock ls makeactive map md5crypt module modulenounzip contour
pager partnew parttype password pause pxe quit read restart
root rootnoverify savedefault serial setkey setup setvbe splashimage
terminal terminfo testvbe tpm display uuid vbeprobe write
grub> (‘grub>’ is followed by a blinking cursor)
=================================================== ==========================
NB I tried “grub> help” and I saw a list in two columns giving
examples of how all of the above commands should be executed. Some
the examples were truncated and therefore incomplete. Here are 4 examples
showing the lines (having the same length) of truncation:
partienew [–active] PART TYPE START [LE
   setup [–prefix=DIR] [–stage2=STAGE2_
   terminal [–dumb] [–no-echo] [–no-ed
   write [–offset=SKIP] ADDR_OR_FILE INT
and some commands had no example: boot
clear
displaymem
is64bit
lock
md5crypt
to restart
I pressed “ESC” to exit and a box with the following displayed:
find /menu.lst, /boot/grub/menu.lst, /grub/menu.lst
command line
to restart
stop
with these instructions under the box:
Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight an entry.
Press ENTER or ‘b’ to start. Press ‘e’ to edit commands
before starting, or ‘c’ for a command line.
At this point I selected “halt” and got:
Start stop
followed by the blinking cursor several lines below the command
Text “Stop start”. I pressed ENTER again, but nothing happened and
I had to manually shut down my laptop to force it to shut down.
And now I am the sad owner of a HP-Mini Dual OS Laptop (XenialPuppy 7.5
& Win XP) which apparently has a broken / damaged boot process. Your
expert help is definitely needed and I would be very grateful to
agree with you with step-by-step instructions on how to proceed to remedy the
the embarrassing situation I find myself in now. I am writing to you
thanks to the ACER laptop (Windows 7 OS) of a friend of the local public
library because the HP-Mini is not functional.
Hoping someone can help sort it out!
Stone in thailand
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