Comment 106 for bug 477169

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Dominique Cimafranca (dominiquec) wrote :

Got bit by this bug last weekend. My setup had a 20GB loop file on C:\, so I don't know how that affects @ago's diagnosis in #105.

This same bug is also the subject of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1317397, and the guess there is that it has something to do with initscripts_2.87dsf-4ubuntu12_i386. See item #34:

<blockquote>It is because of the package initscripts_2.87dsf-4ubuntu12_i386 which is installed as an update. This changes the initrd scripts. So the solution is to revert back to the original initrd file in /boot. Mount the root.disk inside the live CD or Virtualbox(for those those who have only the iso) and copy the following file to the /boot after taking the backup of original initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic which is found in the /boot of the LiveCD or the VBox machine. This would solve the problem</blockquote>

Can't confirm the above, though. I did reinstall with Wubi and just skipped that file altogether in the updates. So far it's okay.