Wubi installer/website should warn about potential data loss with root.disk corruption
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Wubi |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ubuntu-website-content |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Unassigned | ||
13.04 |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Wubi or the http://
I see this problem fairly regularly, and the community support response is generally on the lines of: "Well wubi is for testing Ubuntu only", followed by the poster with the problem saying "Well nowhere does it say that on ubuntu.com". In some cases, it's not even clear to the user that they are running something other than a normal windows/ubuntu dual boot.
I think that not providing a warning could expose Canonical to liability issues, and even if it doesn't, it's the right thing to be up front about what wubi is and what it isn't i.e. a small paragraph to state the intent of Wubi, state the limitations and state the risk.
From my own blog post on "Missing the root.disk" I've had 15,000 hits in just over a year. So even if we ignore 90% of those, that still leaves 1500 'missing root disks'. Hard to say exacly the number... but after showing how great Ubuntu can be through Wubi, it's clearly not ideal to then have something like that happen.
Here are some recent examples:
http://
sda3: _______
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/
mount -o loop /mnt/boot-
mount: /dev/loop1: can't read superblock
The file browser that just opened will let you access your Wubi (Linux installed into Windows) files. (/mnt/boot-
xdg-open: file '/mnt/boot-
umount /mnt/boot-sav/wubi1
umount: /mnt/boot-
This will try to repair Wubi filesystem. Please backup your data before this operation. Do you want to continue? yes
fsck -f -y /mnt/boot-
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /mnt/boot-
Could this be a zero-length partition?
Others (from past week):
http://
http://
http://
http://
Changed in ubuntu-website-content: | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Thank you for raising this with the Webteam.
We do suggest backing up your data before installing. However, will look at this messaging as part of the next release.