I was unable to complete the fix. I suspect it will return so I am storing my research links here.
- How do you stop memtest turns out my hard drive was knocked out of grub somehow.
- LinuxLive USB creator – I believe this is for work on a windows machine. Did not help
- Fix system only boots into memtest after install Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)
- TROUBLESHOOTING: If system boots only into memtest… (Karmic Installation)
- Thread: Can only boot to memtest
- Thread: HOWTO: Purge and Reinstall Grub 2 from the Live CD
- Boot-Repair
- How to fix boot manager in ubuntu