Ubuntu 13.10 installed through WUBI gives "no wubildr" during boot

[kgandhiok]

Hi,

I'm aware that WUBI is no longer supported for Ubuntu installations, however I somehow managed to get Ubuntu 13.10 64bit installed on dual boot alongside Windows 7 through WUBI. Ubuntu works perfectly fine, no errors at all. On boot I see this message "No Wubildr" for about half a second, so I'm just curious as to what this means and if I should be concerned about it.

From what I understand it means that wubi doesn't have a directory created for itself on the system... I don't know if I'm wrong or right... Any suggestions / tips would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[hakuna_matata]

The file wubildr.mbr is searching for the file wubildr. If wubildr.mbr finds an unsupported file system earlier than wubildr it fails.

[kgandhiok]

Oh, so what should I do so that wubildr.mbr can get the wubildr file? How come Ubuntu works fine on my system even though I get this error message each time at boot?

[hakuna_matata]

Is your installation on first hard disk of your system? Is it on first partition ? Maybe you can disconnect external devices you don't need.

[kgandhiok]

My installation is on the same hard disk that has windows 7, I have a windows laptop, but I've done a dual boot of 13.10 on the same hard disk using wubi. I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean by first hard disk or first partition. I did not partition my drive manually for Ubuntu, because wubi did that when I did the installation.

[hakuna_matata]

Windows assigns partitions letters like c: d: e: f: but some partitions e.g. for recovery are hidden.

I'm reading your first post again. If it works the message "no wubildr found" is OK.

Try (hd0,0): NTFS5: no wubildr found
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5:

It means only that wubildr is not on the first partition.

If you want to see all your partitions, you can type in Ubuntu:

sudo parted -l

[kgandhiok]

Thanks