As always, thanks for testing. Populating /boot/grub when it isn't populated by an initial install is untidy, and I suppose with some contortions it might be possible to do something about it, but it shouldn't matter if everything else is working properly. Actually, I might argue that the real bug there is that an initial install of Wubi doesn't populate /boot/grub! It is occasionally useful to have access to modules that aren't built into wubildr, and ultimately it would be nice not to have to build a giant monolithic wubildr; obviously things like ntfs.mod have to be built-in, but much of it could perfectly well be loaded at run-time instead.
I don't think bug 610898 is truly fixed yet, although I still hope to squeeze in a fix for that before the Natty release, once I construct a test case for myself. The no-more-confusing-prompt change you mention was for bug 581760, fixed in Maverick. If wubildr is not being regenerated on upgrade then that is definitely a bug - I know it has been problematic, but if we don't regenerate wubildr then running an upgraded version of update-grub may well break things since there's no guarantee of compatibility between old GRUB core images and modules and new configuration files, so it has to be done if grub-pc and grub-common are upgraded at all. The fact that grub-install didn't work on your install to a non-Windows partition is just the same as bug 610898. The prompt is a side issue; the real underlying issue is that '/usr/share/lupin-support/grub-mkimage --test' doesn't know how to detect that it's a Wubi system in that environment, and that explains why grub-install is trying to do a real install rather than regenerating wubildr. In your installation where Wubi was on the same partition as Windows, is the lupin-support package installed? What do these commands print: sudo /usr/share/lupin-support/grub-mkimage --test; echo $? sudo grub-probe --target=device /boot sudo losetup "$(sudo grub-probe --target=device /boot)" cat /proc/mounts -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742967 Title: Natty Wubi grub prompt on install -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
