Wubi install of Ubuntu Karmic won't boot after Grub2 update
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Wubi |
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Bug Description
@Orrin Zirbel wrote on https:/
My Dell inspiron 1525 laptop runs Windows Vista Home Premium (Intel Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 32-bit operating system). Ubuntu was added in December of 2009 (Karmic) and, until today, has started off a dual-boot menu.
On August 25 2010, I went to Ubuntu and loaded a large number of system updates. The process seemed to go well until it stopped at a question about where to place Grub. I may not have given the correct answer (I told it to proceed) because now the Windows Boot Manager never gets me to Ubuntu. If I select "Ubuntu" in Windows Boot Manager, I get a brief set of messages and then the system takes me back to Windows Boot Manager. Fortunately, at this point I can select Windows and it operates normally.
The messages are:
Try (hd0,0): FAT16: No WUBILDER
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No wubildr
Try (hd0,2): NTFS5:
error unknown command 'loadfont'
error file not found
In my files I have the following:
c:\ubuntu\
c:\ubuntu\
c:\ubuntu\
c:\ubuntu\
c:\ubuntu\
c:\ubuntu\
c:\ubuntu\
c:\ubuntu.ico (modified 12/18/2009)
c:\uninstall-
I am new to using Ubuntu, and would appreciate any help I could get to be able to boot normally as before.
I have removed Ubuntu from this machine and am running it as a Vista-only machine again.
EDIT: (2010/12/13, by Mayukh)
I have tested all ubuntu >= 9.10 as they ship with grub2. I found the issue to occur
1. after updates (9.10, 10.04, 10.10)
2. without updates (10.04, 10.10)
3. even before it is fully installed! (10.10)
@Orrin Zirbel: looking over the symptoms i think yours is a separate from bug #609815. That one actually stops the computer from booting at all, whereas yours is only preventing booting the Wubi install from booting. I hope you don't mind that i took the step to create a new bug #626503. Could you please take the time to go to this bug #626503 web page and enter a comment confirming my guess that you had Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (and had not upgraded it to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx)? Also if there is any additional information you remember please add it here.