Wubi

installation problem

Asked by augustus

I cant install ubuntu 11.04 inside my windows 7
I got bug file named 'wubildr' which contains :

Press space bar
Press to start GRUB, any other key to boot previous MBR ...
Timeout : 
Invalid previous MBR. Press any key to start GRUB ...
Cannot find GRLDR. to hold the screen, any other key to boot previous MBR ...
Error while reading MBR of drive (hd0 )
Invalid boot indicator in partition table of
Invalid sectors_per_track in partition table of
Invalid start_sector in partition table of
Invalid end_sector in partition table of
No boot signature in partition table of
Error: Cannot find GRLDR in all devices. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
Try (hd0,0 ) : EXT2: NTFS4: NTFS5: NTFS5p: FAT32: FAT16: FAT12: non-MS: skip Extended: invalid or null This partition is NTFS but with unknown boot record. Please
install Microsoft NTFS boot sectors to this partition correctly, or create an
FAT12/16/32 partition and place the same copy of GRLDR and MENU.LST there. hot-key  GRUª

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#1

That's not a bug file - it's the wubildr.mbr which is used to boot Ubuntu that is installed through Wubi.

There is a Wubi log file that provides information on the install attempt and diagnostics on why it may have been unsuccessful. To check this, hit the windows start key and enter: %temp%\wubi-11.04-rev211.log

In some cases, Wubi completes successfully but the computer still boots into Windows without offering a choice between Ubuntu and Wubi.

Please describe in detail what happened during the install and any errors e.g. popup error messages - to help figure out what issue you are having.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#2

PS you can paste the log file to http://pastebin.ubuntu.com and return here with the pastebin address.
Thanks

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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