LVPM: Upgrades Wubi installs to dedicated-partition Ubuntu installs

[roystreet]

I guess my simple question is...Should I go ahead & reinstall Ubuntu? If I try to, will it recognize a current installation - Maybe even pull over data files I had? -or- will it just totally write over it? (Which is exactly what I think it will do)
...I ask because I have to have this working soon. All I've got is windows now & I would really like my dual booting back up with Ubuntu as my main OS.
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Thanks,
~roystreet

[roystreet]

...I ask because I have to have this working soon. All I've got is windows now & I would really like my dual booting back up with Ubuntu as my main OS.
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Thanks,
~roystreet

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Nevermind, I reinstalled the whole OS again. It appears that the partition had unresolved errors.

[pwhalley]

Greetings all:

I am trying to transition a wubi install of 9.10 to it's own part. I am doing this on a new Acer Revo 3610 atom / ion nettop with the newest lvpm (lvpm_96_all.deb) running a 64 bit kernel install.

Acer provisioned the unit with 3 partitions. Recovery (17G or so), Boot (100M or so) for windows 7 startup and the windows "C:" partition for the remainder of the drive (abt. 160G total capacity).

I have decided not to abandon Ubuntu (yet) and so, want a more reliable, more standard, probably faster install. I have tried all day to make LVPM move my install but it fails every time!

I am using the instructions at the beginning of this thread. I have also searched for better solution and tweaks to the process. I had already resized(shrunk) my sda3 (the C drive) to allow space to set up swap and os partiton. I formatted that space (tried two ways -no swap - all ext3 as the last fo the four allowed (primary?) partitions, and as extended with 8G swap (smallest allowed) and 30G as ext3) behaivior of LVPM was same in both cases. : Sudo, select transfer, the operation would start, I would select the sdax that I had verified prior was the correct sda and the entire process would either be done in 30 seconds or many minutes (system monitor would show heavy cpu activity in either case during the "format and move" with a reboot msg at the end but on reboot, no changes have been made to boot process and the volume with the transferred info in it is corrupt, unreadable etc.

EditOn--
I also tried to use lvpm_95_all.deb with same results (LT 1 min to completion with no errors reported). Only /bin /boot are copied with any fidelity. I also examined a few logs (not knowing which to check) but found nothing promising during the times of transfer attempts.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Peter

[madjr]

Greetings all:

I am trying to transition a wubi install of 9.10 to it's own part. I am doing this on a new Acer Revo 3610 atom / ion nettop with the newest lvpm (lvpm_96_all.deb) running a 64 bit kernel install.

Acer provisioned the unit with 3 partitions. Recovery (17G or so), Boot (100M or so) for windows 7 startup and the windows "C:" partition for the remainder of the drive (abt. 160G total capacity).

I have decided not to abandon Ubuntu (yet) and so, want a more reliable, more standard, probably faster install. I have tried all day to make LVPM move my install but it fails every time!

I am using the instructions at the beginning of this thread. I have also searched for better solution and tweaks to the process. I had already resized(shrunk) my sda3 (the C drive) to allow space to set up swap and os partiton. I formatted that space (tried two ways -no swap - all ext3 as the last fo the four allowed (primary?) partitions, and as extended with 8G swap (smallest allowed) and 30G as ext3) behaivior of LVPM was same in both cases. : Sudo, select transfer, the operation would start, I would select the sdax that I had verified prior was the correct sda and the entire process would either be done in 30 seconds or many minutes (system monitor would show heavy cpu activity in either case during the "format and move" with a reboot msg at the end but on reboot, no changes have been made to boot process and the volume with the transferred info in it is corrupt, unreadable etc.

EditOn--
I also tried to use lvpm_95_all.deb with same results (LT 1 min to completion with no errors reported). Only /bin /boot are copied with any fidelity. I also examined a few logs (not knowing which to check) but found nothing promising during the times of transfer attempts.
EditOff--

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Peter

hm not sure this works on ubuntu 9.10

this was made for 8.04 and prior

for 9.10 would need to be reprogrammed. For 10.04 there should be an official test release since is an LTS (but thats the creator to decide)

you will need to install ubuntu the normal way (CD-rom or USB stick)

[kadu01]

I tried convert to 9.1 from loopback on my primary HDD to secondary one with full ext3. I found issue in the lvpm script.

It uses vol_id to get some disk information and modify files like /etc/fstab, grub (menu.lst, device.map) and /etc/initramfs-tools/config.d.resume ... so it won't get correct values and due to this will not work correctly. There is need to "remake it" to use blkid instead of vol_id.

I hope it will be helpfull for creating new update.

The happy message is that I successfully migraded from loopback under my windows to standalone partition ;--) So it works under 9.10 with manual interecption

Regards

kadu

[pwhalley]

OK..

Sorry for the delay in posting my "fix" for my own stupidity. You can probably guess where I am going here.

My primary problem with conversion was inattention to sizing of the new partition size - G vs M. 30 Mega Bytes VS 30 Giga Bytes.

There are still issues with dual boot and the way 9.10 and grub2 handles booting with Win7. Every kernel update breaks the boot process.

Peter

[Leshrac]

The happy message is that I successfully migraded from loopback under my windows to standalone partition ;--) So it works under 9.10 with manual interecption

Regards

kadu

Could you please describe how to perform this manual interception? I have a wubi 9.10 install I'd like to move to a stand alone partition but I lack the knowledge to do what you did.

[luisridaocruz]

Hi,

I have used LVPM to resize my ubuntu root.disk from 25 GB to 30 GB.
But this was a big mistake because I had 61 GB in my /host drive and I seemed
to used it up all. I have not lost data because my work was in another partition
but Windows won't start up. I copy-paste the files ystem space usage (from ubuntu):

luisridaocruz@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 25G 22G 1.2G 95% /
udev 1001M 332K 1000M 1% /dev
none 1001M 252K 1001M 1% /dev/shm
none 1001M 92K 1001M 1% /var/run
none 1001M 0 1001M 0% /var/lock
none 1001M 0 1001M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1 61G 61G 0 100% /host
/dev/sdb1 233G 207G 27G 89% /media/New Volume
/dev/sda2 89G 52G 38G 59% /media/Data

How can I free up some of the memory in /host so that Windows will work?

Thanks in advance

[bootiesama]

I have an old Gateway laptop running Win XP and I recently installed Ubuntu as a secondary OS. I am not well versed in LINUX (or even Windows for that matter) but I didn't have enough hd space allocated through Ubuntu to install the programs I needed. (I had some 9G available but less than 1G in Ubuntu) At any rate, I used LVPM to resize my virtual disks (I believe this is the way to increase hd capacity) from 5G to 10G. Anyways, at the end of the file transfer and all it said to reboot to Windows and rename the root files, but when I did Windows says there is an error. I choose Windows XP, couple minutes later I get a blue screen saying boot was terminated due to some error. I tried safe mode and get the same thing. Ubuntu OS still works (which is how I am able to send this message) but how can I get my Windows OS back up and running?? I have an option to boot through Windows safe mode with a command prompt but I wouldn't even know what commands to do so I haven't tried that.

Please help!! Or point me in the direction of a thread that could help. Thanks

[loganfynne]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1750, running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 (Using Wubi). I recently used
sudo sh wubi-move-to-partition /dev/sda5

to move wubi to partition sda5.
It moved correctly, but it for some reason is still using the Windows bootloader.
Also, I am not given the option to boot into the Ubuntu partition on sda5.
I can still use Wubi, but I would really like to put Ubuntu on it's own partition.
Thanks, please help.