[Wubi] Re: BIZARRE SITUATION

[Karl F. Larsen]

Mischa Falkenburg wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 12/15/2009 10:20 AM, Mischa Falkenburg wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Here's the bizarre situation...at least to me.
>>> I have a box that has Ubuntu installed within Windows XP on the C drive. 
>>> Has worked fine for quite a while. Until now. Was working on something 
>>> from the W-side, and had finished what I wanted and left the room. When 
>>> I came back, it was in the process of doing a W update. I thought, "I 
>>> don't need to keep THAT going...", so I initiated a restart since 
>>> something else needed doing on the Ubuntu side. Rather than GRUB coming 
>>> up with the usual selections for me to scroll through, it was showing me 
>>> the Ubuntu version back to 8.04(!), instead of 9.04...
>>> Normally selecting W XP in grub will then show me the choices of  XP & 
>>> Ubuntu. Now when I select Ubuntu the following displays:
>>>
>>> Booting 'Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic'
>>> Filesystem type is ntfs, partition type 0x07
>>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic 
>>> root=UUID=afe0fc43-e49d-4e85-913c-d5a03
>>> 932b192 ro quiet splash
>>> Error 15: File not found
>>>
>>> Press any key to continue...
>>>
>>> I'd be REALLY surprised if all the latest data is gone, and that's not 
>>> what I expect.
>>>
>>> Could anyone steer me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> Booting off the 9.04 disk was tried, but I don't see the choice of 
>>> repairing a broken system. I can run 8.04 ok, so if I need to open a 
>>> terminal that shouldn't be a problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks-in-advance,
>>> Mischa
>>>
>>>     
>> Not snipping so others can see the full post...
>>
>> Mischa did you get this sorted out, or do you still need assistance?
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> Well, NoOp...you're my first response. It's still a problem, but I 
> probably didn't "help" myself any since I did a re-install of 9.04...so 
> I would assume that ALL of the "stuff" like, emails, & documents and 
> Firefox bookmarks are G-O-N-E, true?
> 
> Mischa
> 

	Not if you kept the new load from formating the drive. You 
can do that. Did you do that?

73 Karl


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