Wubi and ext4 problems

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:04:51PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/27/2010 06:29 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > Do any people here use Ubuntu 9.10 installed inside Windows (that is,
> > with Wubi)?
> > 
> > Has anybody seen problems like
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/570686
> > (grub2 fails to read files correctly from the ext4 fs image)
> > 
> > I'm a bit of a loss about what to do next, and in the meantime my
> > sister's laptop cannot boot Ubuntu, so she's forced to use Windows...
> 
> I'm a little confused... I don't think 9.10 automatically installs ext4
> or grub2:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910
> <quote>
> Switching to ext4 requires manually updating grub
<snip quote>

That only applies to upgrades of existing system, not fresh installs.

> I could be wrong, maybe these will help:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1375833

This sounds like the problem I have, thank you for the link!  The forum
links to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lupin/+bug/477169/comments/210
as a possible workaround; I'll try it out when I get access to the
laptop.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
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