"Guided Partitioning" error on first boot-up.

[aporter]

Wubi-8.04-alpha-rev431 using Ubuntu on Windows XP.

Wubi told me to reboot my machine. On the first bootup, the main window says "Guided partitioning" "Computing the new partitions..."

Error window pops up "No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu."

If I click "OK" then I get the above error message again. The error loops indefinitely if I keep choosing "OK". There are no options to escape this loop.

There was no "Partitioning menu" at any point of my install of Wubi. I tried the C drive and D drive and got the same behavior.

I can provide more information (logs, etc) so please ask. (I have been using Ubuntu/Debian a very long time)

Thank you for your time.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Please try Wubi (rev 449+) on the Beta ISO, if you have the same error, please attach /var/log/syslog (you may have to get to a terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+f2)

[aporter (aporter)]

> Please try Wubi (rev 449+) on the Beta ISO

I tried Wubi-8.04-alpha-rev450 (result: same error). However, it didn't
give me an option for a "Beta ISO". I believe the iso it's using is
hardy-desktop-i386.iso. Is that what you meant? If not, I'm not sure
how to change to the beta iso.

adrian

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Yes that would be fine. Thanks.

[aporter (aporter)]

Ok, I have attached /var/log/syslog. I'm guessing that line 1211 is where the main error is:

"partman-auto-loop: Error: Partition number 2 not found in /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda"

On a somewhat-related note, I was able to get Wubi-7.04.04 to install correctly on the same hardware. So whatever the problem is, it's new.

Thanks again.

adrian

[aporter (aporter)]

Just as an update: I tried rev503 on the same hardware and I still see the same behavior.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

It looks like your partition table is not correct:

sda: rw=0, want=195366403, limit=192426570

Once you fix that, uninstall wubi, run chkdsk /r and reinstall. The version to use if 501

[aporter (aporter)]

You were right! My partition table was very broken. Once I fixed my partition table, all of Wubi and Lupin worked from end to end.

Thank you very much for finding the solution to my situation. Is there a reason Lupin didn't tell me it was my partition table that was messed up?

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

> Thank you very much for finding the solution to my situation. Is there a reason Lupin didn't tell me it was my partition table that was messed up?

Is there a reason?