Ubuntu 10.4 updates causes it to fail during boot throwing Try (hd0,0):NTFS5: error: unknown command (loadfont) file not found.

[vbose]

I have a windows vista and early this year I installed wubi for ubuntu 10.4 with dual boot option and it has been working perfectly fine until 07/05/2010 when the last security update happened. Since then, when the system was re-booted, I have been getting the following error

Try (hd0,0):NTFS5: error: unknown command (loadfont) file not found.

My Windows Vista works perfectly fine except that I cannot boot into Ubuntu 10.4 since the last update.

My Machine Spec:

Compaq Presario F700 Notebook PC
Processor: AMD Turion (tm) 64 * 2 Mobile Technology TL-58 1.90 GHz
Vista - 32 bit

How can I fix this error? Please help.

[cheekeong79 (cheekeong79)]

same problem here. any solutions?

[Brendan Keeler (bkeeler)]

My install is suffering from the same problem. Attempts to change wubuildr did not solve the problem.

Dell XPS M1530
Windows 7 32 bit
Intel Core 2 Duo

[Alfredo Galvan (alfredo-galvan)]

Just happened to me also :(

Gateway NV78
Windows 7

[Peter Pein (petsie)]

After a try of installation (kubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso (NO beta or RC)) I got the same message and nothing else than "Try (hd0,0)..." after reboot, selecting Windows 7-x86-64 starter in grub and there selected kubuntu. Very unfruitful :-(
output of fdisk -l /dev/sda:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x034cc9e0

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 34737 38913 33551752+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 1 18934 152087323+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 18935 19456 4192965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 19457 34736 122730968 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I'll try to install kubuntu on the free Linux partition...

[Paul Canfield (tachyon1)]

This sounds like my problem;

Does anyone know how I might enable my boot to Ubuntu again? Here is what I have found but do not know what I should fool with. I thought I would ask before I screw it up worse.

I have Ubuntu 10.04.1 installed inside W7 effectivly creating a dual boot system. It’s been running fine for about 2 months. Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu by selecting the boot Ubuntu option, if fails and goes back to Windows Boot Manager.

There are 2 screens that flash by in about 1/2 a second when enter is pressed after the ubuntu selection. After the screens flash, it reverts again to the Boot Manager. With the help of a camera and good timing, I captured a picture of the text displayed.

The first screen displays;
Try (hd0, 0) NTFS5 No wubildr
Try (hd0, 1) NTFS5 _

The second screen displays;
error unknown command loadfont
error file not found

In the windows C: drive I find the 2 files;
C:\wubildr created 12/19/10 size 87kb
C:\wubildr.mbr created 11/7/10 size 8kb (created the date I installed Ubuntu)

In C:\ubuntu\winboot\... I find the same two files with the same size and creation dates as in the windows c: drive. In addition I also find a file,
C:\ubuntu\winboot\.wubuildr.cfg, created 11/7/10, size 2kb, described as a MS Office Outlook configuration file.

There are also a files;
C:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub\ but the grub directory is empty. The grub directory was created 11/7/10. Should there be a file in the grub directory?

C:\ubuntu\disks\boot also contains inaccessible directories, root.disk and swap.disk.

[Paul Canfield (tachyon1)]

I should have added, It's an HP notebook with intel, dualcore i3CPU with 4 logical processors, 64 bit, running W7, 64 bit, Professional

[bcbc (bcbc)]

@Paul, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1639198 (problem #2, Solution #1, permanent fix).