Wubi'd Hardy fails to boot after upgrading to Intrepid

[Michael Rooney]

Hello! I originally installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64 from Wubi in Windows XP. Today I did an upgrade-manager -d to upgrade to Intrepid. The entire process went seemingly fine with no errors, and it prompted me to restart. It attempted to restart but eventually hung on a black screen. I Ctrl+Alt+Deleted, where it showed some unmounting failed, I believe. I hard restarted, and at booting it started usplash, but after a few seconds dropped to a text-display with the following:

Filesystem type is ntfs, partition type 0x7
 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x217390]
 [Linux-initrd @ 0x3e53d000, 0x84bff4 bytes]

[ 0.608032] PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
Loading, please wait...
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
     - Boot args (cat /prov/cmdline)
        - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
        - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
    - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/FE10674A106708CB does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu3) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs) [ 66.323784] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[ 71.335807] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[ 71.335837] ata2: reset failed, giving up

And then at the bottom:
Kernel alive
Kernel direct mapping tables up to 100000000 @ 8000-d000

I can boot into Windows fine.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This might be a kernel bug.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

I no longer have access to this machine. If more information is required, I guess this bug must be Invalidated?

[Edgar Cherkasov (edgar2705)]

 have the same problem. Only once install from cd

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Thanks for the note Mike. Fritz-X, maybe you can help debug this more. Can you elaborate a bit more on which version of the Intrepid kernel you've updated to? Can you remove the 'quiet' and 'splash' boot options and paste the errors you are seeing or take a digital photo and attach it? Thanks.

[Miles Lane (miles-lane)]

I have this same problem upgrading Wubi 8.04.1 to today's current Intrepid package set.
Unfortunately, I don't know if I will be able to boot with an older kernel, since the dist upgrade process asked me to remove unneeded packages, and I think that included my old kernels. We'll see.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Can you boot in verbose mode (without quiet splash) and report any error? If you are installing as opposed to upgrading, you can also look into /casper.log. When you are in busybox, check what devices are already mounted (cat /proc/mounts) and if the windows host device is not mounted try to mount it manually (mount -t ntfs /dev/XXX /root).

[Mike Homer (homerhomer)]

I have the same issue except I didn't upgrade with WUBI.