Wubi fails on Asus K55V

**afeder** · October 13th, 2012

Hi. I've been trying to install Ubuntu via Wubi on my new Asus K55V laptop. The installation appears to complete fine without errors, but when I then reboot I get this boot screen error:

The arcane language here is Danish. The "status" code is "0xc0000098". The final line reads something to the effect of: "Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt."

The file C:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr does exist and is 8 KB. There is also a C:\wubildr of 133 KB and a C:\wubildr.mbr of 8 KB.

Can anyone tell me what might be wrong? Thanks.

**Frogs Hair** · October 13th, 2012

I think that problem is addressed near the beginning of this thread. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1639198

**afeder** · October 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by Frogs Hair

I think that problem is addressed near the beginning of this thread. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1639198

I tried replacing C:\wubildr with C:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr as suggested, but no luck

**Frogs Hair** · October 14th, 2012

I would suggest posting on the mega thread with a description of what you have done so far.

**bcbc** · October 14th, 2012

I don't think Wubi works with UEFI: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/694242/

I don't know much more about this, but that's what Colin Watson (main developer involved with Wubi) indicates.

Edit: grub4dos checks the drive MBR partition table to identify the partitions, so if there is no drive MBR then it won't work. So that could be the issue with UEFI with a GPT partition table.

**bcbc** · October 15th, 2012

afeder, please can you post some more info... run a command prompt (cmd.exe) as an administrator and enter diskpart, list disk as shown below... (I just want to see if it's a GPT disk):

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.8400]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.8400

Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: XPS

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          698 GB    30 GB

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

C:\Windows\system32>

If it's GPT you might prefer to make a partition and install direct (not with Wubi) to the partition. Wubi is intended to install without partitioning (and it won't make good use even if you create a separate partition for it as it uses a virtual partition that is a single file). (And it's usually simpler partitioning with GPT since it doesn't have the same limits as MBR partition tables)

While you're in that command prompt, maybe you can output the result of "bcdedit" as well e.g.

Code:

C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=C:
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {globalsettings}
integrityservices       Enable
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {1632d04d-ac71-11e1-a566-934e06acdba5}
displayorder            {current}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 10

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 8
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence        {1632d04f-ac71-11e1-a566-934e06acdba5}
integrityservices       Enable
recoveryenabled         Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {1632d04d-ac71-11e1-a566-934e06acdba5}
nx                      OptIn
bootmenupolicy          Standard

C:\Windows\system32>

Thanks