Agostino: although older versions of Wubi installs made use of "rootflags=syncio" as mount options for mounting the root filesystem, the current version doesn't. Bug #204133, comment #59 would tend to support this, at least in theory.
HOWEVER, my root filesystem is in fact the default ext4, which exists in an ntfs loopback file, and I've had no corruption of files whatsoever. This is without any syncio mount option. Also, let me remind you that the files in question aren't actually corrupted at all. Only grub2's reading of modified files shows them as appearing corrupted, and only to grub2 itself. I don't think I need to explain why there is nothing at all wrong with the initscripts package. If you update your initrd, grub2 will read it as corrupted. If you update the grub packages themselves, grub.cfg will be rewritten and grub2 will read it as corrupted. If you update your kernel to -15, it's rewritten, and grub2 reads it as corrupted. You see the pattern here? All three of these were recent updates triggering different error messages, causing people to file multiple problem reports here, but the cause was always grub2 itself. Ultimately, I won't be surprised in the least if we end up discovering the problem to be in the loopback.mod, ntfs.mod, or ext2.mod modules of grub2. In my tests, I chose to make the separate /boot fs to be ext2 to eliminate the possibility of the problem being journal related. There is another test you could perform, which is doing a default Wubi install, creating a root.disk of equal size, making it an ext2fs, copying over the complete install, booting it, and updating it. If you have the same exact problem with grub2, you'll know it isn't journal related (ext2 doesn't do journaling), which only leaves the loopback and/or ntfs modules of grub2 as the culprits. -- 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
