[SOLVED] Try hd(0,0): NTFS5: No wubildr

[help_me_please]

that is the msg i get when trying to boot ubuntu. after approx 1 minute, the msg disappears and the system boots normaly, but it's a tremendous bother. i have wubildr & wubildr.mbr in C:\ and in C:\ubuntu\winboot\. i tried reinstalling wubi. i ran chkdsk /r and everythings OK.

im running wubi 8.04 on vista home premium.

help me please.

[veryofficial]

Hi,
Even I have the same problem in Vista home premium edition installed in Dell inspiron. This is not encouraging because support for Vista should be expected as it is not some arcane OS.

[ago]

press insert rapidly after selecting "ubuntu" and report any error you may see.

[help_me_please]

i get some errors about MBR memory not being the same as bios memory definitions. would a bios update correct this problem?

[help_me_please]

sry for my earlier unhelpful post - i was in class and battery was running low.

here's what happened when i pressed a whole lot of insert:
* same 1 min. long "Try hd(0,0): NTFS5: No wubildr" msg.

* a few msgs flash on screen to fast for me to read (maybe because i didn't stop hitting insert)

* then i get this:

hard drives: 1, int13:F0008090, int15:F000F859
get_diskinfo(80), int13/41(80), version=AA300005, int13/48(80), err=0, C/H/S=16/383/16/63, sector count/size=2344416480/0, int13/08(80), version=0, C/H/S=1024/171/40, int13/02(80), err=0,
warning: MBR cylinders(14594) is not equal to the BIOS one (16383)

warning: MBR heads(255) is not equal to the BIOS one (171)

warning: MBR total sectors(234452610) is greater than the BIOS one (234441648 )
some buggy BIOSes could hang when you access sectors exceeding the BIOS limit.
LBA, C/H/S=14594/255/63, sector count/size=234452610/512
boot drive=80, int13/4B01(80), err=1, drive=80, not CD
get_cdinfo(7F), int13/4B01(7F), err=1, drive=7F, cdrom_drive==FFFFFFFF
starting cmain() ... open/default ... failure

then i hit insert again and get into the grub menu and ubuntu boots ok.

im running wubi in vista on a 120GB HD no extra partitions, LG notebook.

[tinybit]

Try hd(0,0): NTFS5: No wubildr

Don't care about this message too much since you can enter the grub environment normally.

I only wonder which wubildr was found and booted to the grub environment? where is it? Is it from your USB key or diskette?

[oldos2er]

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