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System Hangs on Boot after Wubi 9.04 Install

Asked by km

I had Wubi 8.10 running on my laptop. I then did an update-manager distribution update to 9.04 beta. On reboot I get a console screen that shows a successful fsck and mount of loca filesystem. Then it says activating swapfile, and then nothing.

It echos keystrokes but thats it.

Any suggestions?

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Agostino Russo (ago) said : 		#1

Try to deactivate the swap file by renaming c:\ubuntu\disks\swap.disk to c:\ubuntu\disks\swap.disk.deactivated

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km (km-mathcs) said : 		#2

I was about to take this suggestion, and typed control-alt-delete with the intention of rebooting windows. However, what it actually did was abort the activation of swap, and the system finished booting without problem.

Of course , I don't have any swap.

The /ubuntus/disks/swap.disk is still there and referenced in the fstab. Do I need to do a mkswap on it?

This is a little confusing. I'm used to using mkswap on a file or a device, but under wubi this is kind of a file which is a device.

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Agostino Russo (ago) said : 		#3

Swap files are normally supported by the linux kernel (see man swapon), this is no different, you can create a large enough file and run mkswap on it.

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