Dual Boot 10.10 and 11.04 can't boot into 10.10 after an update.

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Published on 2011-03-12T16:01:34Z Indexed on 2011/03/12 16:18 UTC
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I've been dual booting my system with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) but today after an update, I can't boot into 10.10, there's only option to boot into 11.04 and Grub also looks a bit different.

Before this update, I used to see first option for 11.04 and an other option called /dev/sda1 for 10.10 but now there is a new option called Previous Linux Versions, but when I Enter into that menu, there is no option to boot into 10.10 all the options take me to 11.04 now it looks like this... enter image description here

And when I click on Previous Linux Versions...

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