Grub: file not found

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-01-05 21:38 (GMT-0500) Jerry Lapham composed:

> I have a laptop with configured as follows:
> 	Kubuntu  11.04 on sda5,
> 	Kubuntu 12.04 (upgraded from 11.04) on sda 6,
> 	Mageia 1.0 on sda7, and
> 	Kubuntu 13.10 (clean install) on sda8.

> My active Grub (original) is on sda5.

> Kubuntu  11.04 on sda5 boots fine.

> Kubuntu 12.04 (upgraded from 11.04) on sda 6 will boot the vmlinux-2.6.38-16-
> generic  copied from 11.04 but gives me a "file not found" if I try to boot the
> vmlinuz-3.2.0-58-generic supplied by the upgrade despite the fact I can see it
> in the /boot directory.

Was the 11.04 on sda6 that was upgraded to 12.04 initially made by some form 
of cloning from sda5? If so, grub needed to be installed to sda6 somewhere 
along the way, may not have been, and if so, what is there now is pointing to 
sda5, and finding 2.6.38 on and loading from sda5, not sda6.
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