Migrating to /dev/sda1 can stop wubi booting

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Migrate a Wubi install to partition

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MigrateWubi

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Migrating to /dev/sda1 can stop wubi booting #7

Open bcbc opened 13 years ago

bcbc commented 13 years ago

Wubi uses an old version of grub4dos to boot that cannot read (hangs up on) ext4 partitions. If a user migrates to /dev/sda1, then trying to boot Wubi (from Windows) no longer works. Potential fixes - if target is lower than partition containing /wubildr, then force it to be ext3. Note: this doesn't affect the migration. Only if the user decides not to install the Grub2 bootloader. Fix: from Windows, format the partition as ntfs. This will allow Wubi to boot again.

bcbc commented 13 years ago

Apparently this affects ext3 as well. This has been fixed in the wubildr.mbr for Oneiric 11.10.

bcbc commented 13 years ago

Since this is fixed going forward from 11.10, and in any case, most people with Wubi will migrate to a logical partition e.g. /dev/sda5, I'm marking this as low priority (and not likely to address)