How to boot Kali from initramfs or Grub prompt

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I will like if anyone can help me get Kali Rolling 2016.1 to boot when I have the grub or initramfs prompt. I install kali, fine did the update, but whenever I reboot my Laptop I get the initramfs prompt, sometimes I get the grub prompt.

There must be a How To on this.

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There are so many knowledgeable people here.

For those getting the grub prompt only at boot, that is not a bad thing at all.

at the prompt type ls you will see (hd1 or hd0, gpt1 or 2 or 3 etc)

You must know where your kali "/" root partition is on when you install kali, ( this is like your car keys). Eg: gpt 1 or gpt2 etc. then type

configfile (hdy,x)/boot/grub/grub.cfg

sub x is your kali / root partition. The y is the output number you get from ls command above.

There is another way, just more typing.

grub> linux (hdy,x)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdax
grub> initrd (hdy,x)/initrd.img
grub> boot

When you boot into kali, run update-grub then grub-install , will make you boot back into grub menu.

When I figure out the dreaded initramfs prompt will post.

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To get out of initramfs type set root=/dev/sdax then reboot the machine. On reboot you will be at the login propmt.

again x being what your kali partition is at.

On a different note, I see another on popping, grub rescue.