update wubi installer using intrepid alpha 1

[bradleesargent]

I had wubi installer install ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Herron) on my machine.
I downloaded the intrepid alpha alternative disk.
I booted into wubi linux.
It prompted me to update using the intrepid alternative disk.
It updated almost to the end, but then I got an error.
I wish I could remember the exact error.
It told me it would leave my version of linux in an unstable state.
I can no longer boot the wubi-installer version of linux on my machine, I believe it brings me to init level 1 and I cannot get past that level (I don't know how to do that).

[bradleesargent (bradlee-sargent)]

when I boot wubi now it shows
initrmfs
and there are only a limited number of commands I can use at this point.
I was trying to mount a drive but was unable to using the normal
mount /dev/sda1 /
command,because the / was already mounted with something.

I tried init 5 but that didn't work either.

I am not sure what to do except to uninstall wubi and reinstall it...
But on the other hand I want to learn more about ubuntu which I feel I could do if I learned more about initrmfs

[bradleesargent (bradlee-sargent)]

By initrmfs I meant initramfs.

[Fritz (grenavitar)]

Replicable steps for me getting this same error:

1. Install Wubi with Hardy Heron
2. Update Hardy until ~June 25th, 2008.
3. sudo update-manager -d -- close all programs and let install happen
4. Boot manager into Ubuntu (other OS, Win XP SP2)
5. Gets you into initramfs and not into Ubuntu

I had a similar problem going from 7.10 to 8.04 but without Wubi with the 8.04 alpha.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

New intrepid branch is up

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

That should work with the new release, please reopen if you have problems dist-upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10