Wubi, Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64, 30G installation size, grub prompt
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Wubi |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have detected an unusual edge case. If I try to install Ubuntu 9.10 for AMD64, and set the installation size to 30G I end up with only seeing the grub prompt when I finally get to the stage of booting Ubuntu (IE: after the installer is finished after rebooting the first time).
If I cat the grub.cfg file I only see <0>'s (nulls).
If I set the installation size to 29G or below, Ubuntu boots perfectly.
If I use 32 bit Ubuntu instead of the amd64 version, Ubuntu boots perfectly.
I tried reinstalling multiple times and it consistently worked for sizes 29G and below, and consistently failed setting to 30G.
Note: I'm not keeping this Windows installation, and thus can't do ongoing diagnostics. It came pre-installed on a machine I intend to wipe and install Ubuntu on the entire disk. I only wanted to see how Wubi worked, and ended up noticing this problem as my first attempt involved setting the installation size to the maximum the pulldown allowed.
Same thing happened with me at 30 I'm going to reset to 28 and retry the install.