The following might be helpful. It summarizes Mark Albene's solution to this problem:
I did a fresh install of wubi-ubuntu into a Windows XP partition, performed all updates, and observed the boot problem. I was able to reboot by typing in the commands at the grub prompt: grub> linux /vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro grub> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.31-15-generic grub> boot I then did the following as instructed in the comments for this bug: Brought in Mark Albene's patches for /etc/grub.d/10_lupin and /usr/share/lupin-support/grub-mkimage and put them in /home/user/InstallationNotes/patches $ sudo -s # cd /etc/grub.d/ # apt-get install patch # patch -b 10_lupin /home/user/InstallationNotes/patches/patch_to_10_lupin # mv 10_lupin.orig /home/user/InstallationNotes/patches Note: failure to do the above mv will cause additional entries in the grub menu # cd /usr/share/lupin-support # patch -b grub-mkimage /home/user/InstallationNotes/patches/patch_to_grub-mkimage # cd /host/ubuntu/disks # dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.disk bs=4096 count=16384 # mke2fs boot.disk Note: mke2fs apparently sets up the necessary loop device when it is given a file instead of a device. # cd / # mkdir /vdisk.boot # mount -o loop,rw /host/ubuntu/disks/boot.disk /vdisk.boot # cp -a /boot/* /vdisk.boot # umount /vdisk.boot # mount -o loop,rw /host/ubuntu/disks/boot.disk /boot # update-grub # grub-install hd0 # vi /etc/fstab Added the boot.disk entry line so that /etc/fstab looks like the following: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk / ext4 loop,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /host/ubuntu/disks/boot.disk /boot ext2 loop,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap loop,sw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 and then rebooted successfully from the menu provided by grub. I hope I have not forgotten anything or have any typos in the above. All commands executed without errors. -- Wubi/Karmic boot: kernel panic - not synching: VFS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477169 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
