[Wubi] Re: BIZARRE SITUATION

[Mischa Falkenburg]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Mischa Falkenburg wrote:
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>> NoOp wrote:
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>>> On 12/15/2009 10:20 AM, Mischa Falkenburg wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>>
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>>> Not snipping so others can see the full post...
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>>> Mischa did you get this sorted out, or do you still need assistance?
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>> 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
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> 	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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With the install done from within Windows, there was NO mention of the 
drive being formatted. Given that, is there a "next" step?

Mischa