Can't boot in Ubuntu, after installation.

[Elf Wizard]

Hi!

I just installed wubi under xp. My problem is that I can't boot in ubuntu.

I can see the "Ubuntu" entry in ntldr, but it seems to be empty, so nothing happens. The boot.ini entry is "c:\wubildr.mbr="Ubuntu"".

Any possibility to edit manually wubildr.mbr, or any other workarround?


THANKS!!!
Giorgos.

[ago]

I can see the "Ubuntu" entry in ntldr

Do you mean the ubuntu entry in boot.ini ??? What do you exactly mean by looks "empty"?

[anandanbu]

Would be better to answer if you could provide with some more details

[Elf Wizard]

Do you mean the ubuntu entry in boot.ini ??? What do you exactly mean by looks "empty"?

Ooops! SORRY guys!
Seems like my posting was pretty confusing!
So, I'm trying again.

When I rebooting, ntldr is launching. I can see there, the "Ubuntu" entry.
But when I'm pressing "enter", nothing happens (black screen returned and absolutely no disk activity).

I was wondering, if there is a way, to do something, so that ubuntu can be launched .

I hope this post is better understandable now! Thanks for your patience!

My boot.ini entry is c:\wubildr.mbr="Ubuntu
My disk is IDE, Windows are xp sp2.

[ago]

Do you see wubildr.mbr and wubildr in C:\?

[Elf Wizard]

Do you see wubildr.mbr and wubildr in C:\?

Yes, they're both there:

wubildr.mbr 8KB
wubildr 176KB

(I checked also my disk with chkdsk/f . Nothing bad found).

[ago]

Is your drive compressed?
Also try to rapidly press inf during boot (as soon as you select "Ubuntu")

[Elf Wizard]

Is your drive compressed?

No. I checked again wubi and ubuntu files. Nothing is compressed. (there are only some compressed folders here, that windows autocompressed them in other disk locations (eg. sp2 installation files).).

Also try to rapidly press inf during boot (as soon as you select "Ubuntu")

Sorry for asking that, sounds silly, but I can't see an inf key.
Maybe have I to type inf (pressing i, n, f one after another)?

[ago]

No. I checked again wubi and ubuntu files. Nothing is compressed. (there are only some compressed folders here, that windows autocompressed them in other disk locations (eg. sp2 installation files).).

What I mean is that windows allows you to compress a full drive, this may create problems if that is the drive used to install wubi.

Sorry for asking that, sounds silly, but I can't see an inf key.

Typo I meant INS

[Elf Wizard]

What I mean is that windows allows you to compress a full drive, this may create problems if that is the drive used to install wubi.

Oh! I see.
Well, no it isn't compressed.

Typo I meant INS

Thanks!
Please give me 5min, so I can check it!