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Dualboot install problem on restart

Asked by William Pearse Sturgiss

I installed Ubuntu in the past (as a dualboot with windows 7, but for various reasons never got around to trying it.
Now I am installing it again, and it goes through the entire installation process and then says it has to restart. I let click restart, and it tells me to remove the install disk and press enter, so I do so, but then when it restarts and I choose for it to boot Ubuntu, it tries to load it but fails. It says this:

Try (hd0, 0): NTFS5: No Wubildr
Try (hd0, 1): Extended:
Try (hd0,2): invalid or null
Try (hd0,3): invalid or null
Try (hd0, 4): EXT2:

any ideas?

I am also probably going to wipe my windows its getting fat, so if i need to wipe it all, that isn't a problem.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#1

Likely you have an ext4 partition (/dev/sda5) that wubildr.mbr cannot read - it hangs up on these.

But normally it should find the wubildr on the root of C:\ (/dev/sda1?)
The reasons it might not find wubildr are:
1. the file is physically > 137GB from the start of the disk and you have an old BIOS that cannot read this far
2. the partition is excessively fragmented
3. it's not there

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