Ubuntu :: Used Wubi Install - Shut Down Improperly, Now Won't Boot?
Jan 14, 2010
I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 approx 1 week ago and it's been fine. Last night, Ubuntu froze while I was running several programs. I wasn't sure how to pull up any type of 'task manager' and the mouse didn't move so after several minutes I was forced to hard reboot the computer. Grub starts and allows me to select Ubuntu but won't get past the log-in screen (allows me to log-in but freezes immediately after hitting enter). I started the recovery mode and the errors show what I believe to be sector errors (?)Do I need to run a 'chkdsk' from Windows or re-install Ubuntu? If deleting/un-installing Ubuntu (through Wubi) is necessary, is this a problem directly related to Wubi (i.e. is a clean install on a seperate partition better than installing through Wubi)?
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Feb 24, 2011
So yeah I want to transfer my system to the real Ubuntu. Problem is I can't boot into my Wubi Ubuntu cause I lost boot.
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Mar 1, 2010
I'm using opensuse 11.2 and a week or so ago it suddenly stopped shutting down the computer, or rebooting. It shuts the screen down and that seems to be it, so I have ti switch it off. However a day or so later it began to reboot when asked, but still won't shut down. I'm dual booting it with Unbuntu 9.04 using grub2, but it's been that way for many months without problems.
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Dec 27, 2010
I've been unable to do a non-Wubi install of U 10.10 desktop 32 bit. My setup:
HP p6240f , Intel Core2 Quad Q8300 2.5 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB
Currently, I have a clean install of Windows XP (updated) on my desktop. Previously, I used a clean install of Windows 7, but ran into the same problems below. My U install problems are:
1.) Live CD will not boot upon restarting PC. As per the U documentation web site (URL) , md5sums confirmed that proper .iso copy was downloaded and burned to CD. (However, see log file below for md5 error)
2.) "Installing CD boot helper" does not work. I receive the following error message: "Could not retrieve the required installation files", and it refers to a log file. An excerpt of the log file is below.
12-27 18:06 DEBUG TaskList: #### Finished get_metalink
12-27 18:06 DEBUG TaskList: New task get_file_md5
12-27 18:06 DEBUG TaskList: #### Running get_file_md5...
12-27 18:07 DEBUG TaskList: #### Finished get_file_md5
[Code].....
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Nov 27, 2010
I wanted to install ubuntu via wubi, but i had to format my partitions (can't do it on wubi ) so i used a crappy program(i don't remember the name) to get rid of Backtrack4 , because i wanted windows kept for my mom.So, that was the sorry, i've ended up with a GRUB error 22, and a Backtrack4 CD stuck in my DVD-rom.So my question is: Can somewone tell me how to fix error 22? (i've seen some methods online, but i obviously can't put a Windows CD in my DVD rom because the Backtrack4 DVD is stuck in there.
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Apr 14, 2010
I recently did a Wubi install of 9.10 on my netbook that initially ran Windows 7 Starter. I wanted to speed up the booting process so I went into Windows and set the OS selection list waiting time to be 0 and the default OS to be ubuntu. I did this assuming that there is a way to force OS selection list to be brought up during boot; I think I was wrong.So now, I'm stuck booting directly into 9.10 (not even a full install!). Is there a way to either modify the Windows boot file to reset the selection list timer or to force the list to be brought back out?
EDIT: I should note that editing the grub files within the wubi install would only make changes to the GRUB loader, which has no effect on the actual Windows loader.
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Apr 22, 2011
just installed Ubuntu 10.10 (if I am not wrong) on my XP computer using Wubi. The problem now is that whenever I boot up, there is no sign of Ubuntu. The computer just goes straight into Windows XP. I checked the C: drive (main hard disk) and I see a folder called "ubuntu" and I am quite sure that Ubuntu is supposed to boot from there right? Could someone please help me out? How can I trouble shoot and get Ubuntu to boot up (using the Wubi install, that is
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Jan 11, 2010
i have Karmic installed with Wubi inside a Vista NTFS filesystem. Yesterday i did an apt-get dist-upgrade and Karmic never booted again. It won't even show the grub kernel list, it just shows some really quick text that vanishes before i can even figure out what it is and then drops to some sort of grub shell and then i can't figure out what to do.
I could boot a livecd and mount my karmic install and everything seems fine, the filesystem is clean and all that. But how do i fix it so it can boot again?
Does anyone here know wtf happened? Was there a bad upgrade or something?
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Oct 13, 2009
Offlate I installed F11 i586 on my laptop. F11 shares the hard disk with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The problem is that when running F11 (or even Ubuntu), my system shut off suddenly(not a normal OS shut down, but a sudden power off without any warning). This could have been a hardware trouble(heating) but it doesn't happen with Vista.
Machine specifications:
Maker: Toshiba
Model: Satellite L305D-S5881
AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile Processor RM-70
3072 MB 800 MHz SDRAM
I don't want to open up my machine unnecessarily, if it isn't a hardware issue.
I am not sure how to verify the bit length of the machine and the OS and does it create a compatibility issue ?
Your advise would be highly appreciated.
Raman
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Jan 30, 2011
I tried to install suse 11.3 but every time the system shut down in the install process it never finish
I think that the FAN does not work
I have an Acer Aspire 5720z
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Nov 20, 2009
I installed Fedora 12 and after I wantd to shut down the system. I waited but fedora not going to shut down. I got black screen with Power Down
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Feb 17, 2010
I've built several computers and installed Ubuntu on each one, and I've never had problems until my latest build. Here are the problems:The computer requires acpi=off to boot, and it won't boot with acpi=ht. I've searched for this, and there's a widely reproduced acpi troubleshooting guide that says that this means that there's something wrong with the acpi tables themselves, but I haven't found any fixes.If I go ahead and use acpi=off, then the computer works fine, but it hangs on shutdown. I've searched for this too, and the consensus seems to be to remove acpi=off from the boot options. This, of course, is not an option for me.
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Nov 20, 2010
I've just renamed my Mythbuntu 9.04 machine which was running a frontend and master backend. It's now a frontend and slave backend with a different machine name. All is working in that the connection between slave and master backend functions without problems. However, the mythbackend on the slave will not start on boot - I have to start it manually from the terminal. In addition, the power button on the machine will not shutdown the machine any more - I can only shut it down from the terminal.
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May 8, 2011
I recently upgraded from 10.04 to 11.04, and when I did so images started displaying improperly in Firefox. This is an issue that is isolated to Firefox, and does not occur in Chrome, and really only occurs on Facebook. The images look as though they were taken under a blacklight. I don't know what the issue is, as I was running Firefox 4 under 10.04, and the issue did not occur then.
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May 16, 2011
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04, and am trying to overlay a static blue coastline image onto a geostationary animation with 12 frames using imagemagick. I have received no replies from them on their forums.The code I used to create the composite animation is as follows:
Code:
convert ( animation.gif -coalesce ) null: ( outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif outline.tif
[code]....
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Jan 15, 2010
I have Fedora (12 plus some rawhide, but mostly 12 because I am not up to date) with the Nouveau driver. I tried to switch to the solar plymouth theme, but I only see the ASCII progress bar at boot. But when I shut down, it work nicely. (I have updated to initrd and menu.lst)
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Jun 1, 2011
After installing 11.04, I have enabled the Nvidia proprietary drivers and I see this (picture of problem is attached) at startup and shutdown. About nine out of 10 times, I cannot get to the log in screen (even in recovery mode); however, on the tenth try, everything works properly and I can even play games, ex. Braid and World of Goo. I get about 3700 fps running glxgears.
I have run nvidia-settings and dpkg and various other things in an attempt to get it sorted out. Additional Drivers says that the "driver is activated but not currently in use." I'm not sure why that is.
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Jan 7, 2010
We have a computer lab at school that ITS is trying to get ready before the semester starts. ITS is willing to put a wubi install on all the windows 7 machines in the lab after some faculty asked for a linux option. However they don't really support linux and basically need our help if any problems arise. After getting one machine to boot up nicely they used symantec ghost to make an image and put it on all the machines (I don't know the details on this but this is what I gather). However, no machine will boot into Ubuntu 9.10 unless one edits the boot options upon choosing Ubuntu from the windows 7 bootloader. I suspect there is a subtle problem that lies from ghosting the one machine.
Code:
root=/dev/sdb2
to
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May 16, 2011
Alright, I've had Wubi running on my Windows 7 PC for a few months now and it's great. I had given Wubi 5GB of space when I installed. After using it for some time, I decided I wanted some more space for my Wubi install. I looked up how to do it and came across a few options. The one I chose is this one: "Download wubi-add-virtual-disk, open a terminal and run: Code: sudo sh wubi-add-virtual-disk /home 15000
Where the first argument is the directory to move to a new dedicated disk, and the second argument is the size in MB. You should now reboot. If you are happy with the result, you can now remove /home.backup. To undo the changes remove /home, copy rename /home.backup to /home and remove the /home line in /etc/fstab."
The only problem - after I rebooted, I could not boot into Wubi. It has an error when I try, but it goes away too quickly for me to read, then it just restarts my computer. How can I fix this without having to reinstall Wubi completely? I'm willing to reinstall if it's the absolute only option, but I'm willing to try anything to get it working again. Oh, and I found another way to change the space, so no worries about that. I just have to get back into Wubi to do it...
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Nov 18, 2009
The CheckSum file I downloaded for Fedora 12 contains a header line indicating the checksums are SHA1 when in fact they are SHA256.
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Jul 27, 2010
I am running Ubuntu 9.10 with Windows XP, installed from the live CD via WUBI. I believe that GRUB is 1.97~.
Everyting was working just fine until after applying some of the upgrades in the upgrade manager; now Ubuntu will not boot. Instead, it starts up the GRUB console with an error message saying that it can't find the kernel.
If you type ls, you see the following:
Code:
>ls
(loop0) (hd0) (hd0,1)
(loop0) is the Ubuntu loopback drive, (hd0,1) is the Windows drive (the real hard drive) and they are intact. I am able to set the root to (loop0) and you can see the files. But the hard drive and the loopback drive do not appear in /dev, so you can't mount them. To be precise, there are no devices beginning with "sd" listed in /dev.
I am able to boot the computer from the live CD, which automatically mounts the hard drive; from the live CD, I can mount the loopback drive thus.
Code:
> sudo mkdir /media/wubi
> sudo mount -o loop /media/8834C7D034C7C004/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /media/wubi
So they are not broken.
How can I make the drives appear in /dev when booting from GRUB?
(BTW, Windows XP broke during an upgrade a month ago, and it won't boot, either. I will try to fix that now that I have saved my files from the computer through Ubuntu.)
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Sep 1, 2010
I have recently discovered ubuntu and like it's elegance and simplicity and want to learn more about it "hands on". To this end I have tried to put it on one of my PC's running the Vista SP2 OS...When i try to install it with the CD the drive spins up then starts "hunting"..next the PC shuts down..black screen monitor.no KB or Mouse..the monitor flashes a box saying "power saving mode" then all is dead except for the power button being lit..I have to manually turn the PC off to recover...Next i did a D/L of wubi and rebooted as advised.Selected ubuntu on the BIOS and had the same final result as B4 with the CD. I have D/L and burned 2 CD's, one with my XP machine and the other with the Vista machine..Both CD's work as advertised on my XP machine (i did the "live" install) but not the Vista. The Vista machine is an HP with: AMD Athlon 64x2 3800+ CPU..3 GB of RAM..250 GB HDD. I do not like Vista ( i inherited the machine) it's a pain in the posterior. IMHO ubuntu and it's ilk are the way to go and i intend to do just that one way or the other.
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Dec 5, 2010
I have been running Ubuntu (Wubi) for about 2 - 3 months now and it has been flawless.
I start up the computer. I get the choice to book windows 7 or Ubuntu I choose Ubuntu and then I get the list of boot installers to choose from and it is play time.
Today when I went to get onto my Ubuntu install, I got the first window asking if I want Windows or Ubuntu and when I chose Ubuntu, rather than going to the Grub boot menu, the laptop would just restart and go back to the first window asking if I wanted windows 7 or Ubuntu.
It seems the Grub boot files are gone. Now I have read that the fix for this is to use a live disk of Ubuntu to reinstall Grub2 BUT it is my impression the Wubi does not install Ubuntu "normally"
Can I rescue Grub using a live disk as if ubuntu was installed directly yo a partition from a regular ISO or is there another way to do it if it was installed by Wubi?
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May 23, 2011
I'm a bit of an Ubuntu virgin. Well, I've had a dabble in Ubuntu before and it was enjoyable, though I panicked when I accidently deleted the bootloader for Windows so I decided to get rid of Ubuntu. Which comes to my next point. [EDIT] When I deleted the bootloader, I used a Windows 7 Recovery CD which got me back on to the OS - which I think messed up the Ubuntu part of the bootloader [/EDIT] I've currently tried to install Wubi 5 times now - I've created a dedicated partition of 20gb for it as well. Now it downloads Ubuntu and installs it correctly (from what I can see) but when I come to select Ubuntu on start up (the option IS there).. I get a this black screen:
Quote: [URL] And unfortunately I don't know what to do afterwards. Is there any chance of someone knowing what to do with this? I've read many forums and I don't usually come on to a forum to actually ask for help - but it's time, I want to use Ubuntu! I've always wanted Ubuntu as my main OS.
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May 16, 2011
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04, and am trying to overlay a static blue coastline image onto a geostationary GIF animation with 12 frames using imagemagick. The code I used to create the composite animation is as follows:
Code:
convert ( animation.gif -coalesce ) null: ( outline.tif -coalesce ) -layers Composite composite_animation.gif
The resulting animation is below:
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It's a bit hard to see, but the blue outline should be aligned much farther to the left on the image, but the vast majority of it is cut-off to the right because it is shifted so far. It should be centered. Both the outline and the background are actually cropped regions out of respectively larger images that are identical in size and are designed to be overlaid.
If I choose a cropped region farther to the right on the background animation, the cropped blue outline of the same region won't even show up at all after the overlaying, as if it is shifted completely off the screen for some reason. I have had success overlaying outlines before with the above command, but here it is not working. I tried appending "-gravity center" to the command with no success.
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Sep 28, 2010
I have a script to report phishing sites that calls sendEmail. I keep getting the above error and can't seem to figure out just what the problem is. What I see in the output log for sendEmail is at these pastebin links One as a success and one as a failure. If the sendEmail and sendphish scripts are needed, which I'm sure they will be, I'll attach them here. There are also a few additional files to run sendphish here If I've left something out please let me know. I've contacted the author on this before but all he basically told me was to read the docs on addressing which I've done multiple times to no avail
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Jan 7, 2010
I installed Xubuntu 9.10 with Wubi and it worked fine until a recent kernel update broke my install. I uninstalled through Windows and reinstalled Xubuntu 9.10 with Wubi with no apparent problems.When I look in C:ubuntudisks, root.disk, swap.disk, and the boot folder are both present. The C:ubuntudisksootgrub folder is empty; I don't know whether or not it should be that way.But when my computer starts, it just boots Windows Vista without displaying the menu asking me to select my OS.
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Oct 17, 2010
i install ubuntu though wubi and it worked kind of. It asked me to restart at the end so i did and when it was startaing up it didnt show the option to boot into ubuntu.
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Dec 28, 2010
I have a Toshiba laptop with windows 7. I installed wubi and all worked fine until I ran some ubuntu updates. Now the computer will not boot, what comes up is error: no such device: f53e513e-bfa0-4126-ab5c-8f7777505812. grub rescue> Is returns unknown command set returns prefix=(hd0)/boot/grub root=hd0
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Apr 23, 2011
i tried to install xubuntu on my desktop using wubi..it instaled and everything when i tired to boot xubuntu it said
Code:
Gave up waiting for root device. Common Problems:
-Check rootdelay=(did the system wait long enough?)
-Check root=(did the system wait for the right device?)
-Missing Modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/sdb3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
okay now when i try to boot window$ vi$ta and re Install WUBI window$ cant boot either
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