Grub: file not found

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-01-06 16:02 (GMT+0100) Ralf Mardorf composed:

> On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 21:59 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> If so, grub needed to be installed to sda6 somewhere
>> along the way

> No, it doesn't matter where grub is installed,

It does in multiboot (OP here has 4 Linux distros) when you have Grub on each 
/ or multiple /boots and you think it is pointing to one partition but the 
Grub living there due to a cloning operation is pointing to a different 
partition. In the OP's case, Grub code in sda6's boot sector could be 
pointing to sda5, where the 11.04 kernel and initrd certainly are, and the 
12.04 kernel/initrd are not, making booting sda6 work with sda5's 11.04 
kernel, but not with the 12.04 kernel that has no reason to be on sda5.

The OP here did not provide enough information to explore all possible 
avenues of failure.

>  at best it should be
> installed to /dev/sda instead of installing it to a partition.

That deserves one of the words you were censored for using. Installing Grub 
to MBR on a multiboot system with multiple Grubs installed, each presuming 
*it* is the *master* boot loader, is a sure path to headaches for all but the 
most experienced Grub users, particularly if one or more non-Linux OS is 
installed.
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