New Wubi version (test3) is out

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We have released a new wubi version (Wubi-7.04-test3). You can get it from our website www.wubi-installer.org.

http://cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/latest.html

That includes several bug fixes which should cover most people that had problems with previous release: grldr fixes, 33% freeze fixes, reboot issues, raid1/0...

[yapel]

Well, Test 3 fails to work on my IBM Thinkpad R40 in exactly the same way as Test 2, i.e. cannot find grldr! Any quick fix?

[tinybit]

Well, Test 3 fails to work on my IBM Thinkpad R40 in exactly the same way as Test 2, i.e. cannot find grldr! Any quick fix?

Is this a 137G issue? I guess this machine has a disk with size less than 137G considering it is a notebook.

[viralbug]

when i ry to download, it still downloads the Wubi-7.04-test2 file. where is the new wubi version?

[ago]

when i ry to download, it still downloads the Wubi-7.04-test2 file. where is the new wubi version?

You might have the page cached. When you see the white page, cancel the download and refresh the browser.

[skezza]

Test3 simply gives me an invalid username error every time i try and install. No Luck yet

[ago]

Well, Test 3 fails to work on my IBM Thinkpad R40 in exactly the same way as Test 2, i.e. cannot find grldr! Any quick fix?

Copy grldr on all partitions

[MilchFlasche]

Copy grldr on all partitions

Hi, I've done by your suggestion, copied grldr to all my partitions and successfully installed Ubuntu.

However, the process of the installation was wholly weird. I wonder is there anything else to be copied other that the grldr file?

First, although the "No GRLDR" problem was solved, but I found that the installer didn't detect my language setting when I installed Wubi. I chose Chinese (Traditional) first in the Wubi installer dialog, but in Ubuntu installer there was no choices corresponding to this, and I had to chose English to proceed and complete the installation.

Second, every time I boot with "Ubuntu", I got the error

[timestamp] hdd: error code: 0x70 sense_key:0x03 asc: 0x11 ascq 0x00
[timestamp] Buffer I/O error on device hdd - logical block 3357322

I've search for similar reports on the forum, but I wonder if this problem has to do with the GRLDR issue, so I mention this here too.

Third, after those hd and buffer I/O error are passed, during the booting of Ubuntu I also see (not exactly the original messages below):

Preparing local drives to...
/media/host/wubi/disks/usr.virtual.disk No such file or ...
/media/host/wubi/disks/extra.virtual.disk No such file or ...

With these three major weird phenomena, my Ubuntu instance is kind of crippled now, because every package I install seems not to take effect, including language support I need, NVIDIA driver... so I stopped trying and am reporting here.

Please instruct me if anything above doesn't have to do with GRLDR issue

Thank you first for all the hard work!

[ago]

First, although the "No GRLDR" problem was solved, but I found that the installer didn't detect my language setting when I installed Wubi.

We'll look into that

[timestamp] Buffer I/O error on device hdd - logical block 3357322[/CODE]

That might be due to a bad hard disk block

Preparing local drives to...
/media/host/wubi/disks/usr.virtual.disk No such file or ...
/media/host/wubi/disks/extra.virtual.disk No such file or ...

You can ignore that

because every package I install seems not to take effect, including language support I need, NVIDIA driver... so I stopped trying and am reporting here.

That's strange, do you have r/w access to the filesystem?

[MilchFlasche]

That's strange, do you have r/w access to the filesystem?

Well I forgot to offer the information that I was installing Wubi Test3 on my NTFS hard drive (actually it's quite common that people install Wubi on Win XP, and therefore on NTFS isn't it ) Would this affect my r/w privilege in Ubuntu? And how should I fix this? Thank you and sorry for asking so many peripheral problems within this thread