Yes I have a Wubi install of Ubuntu 8.04.01 LTS upgraded online to Ubuntu 9.10 in the windows/vista partition.
I recently installed openSUSE 11.2 from LXF magazine disk and lost the original Grub for windows/ubuntu.
The new Grub from openSUSE boots windows/vista but not Ubuntu, although its listed, in when I try I get:
busybox v1.1.3 (initramfs) ect.
that is it basically, a bit like losing the keys to my car as most of my stuff is with Ubuntu.
An outside possibility is that openSUSE has run into problems because 9.10 uses Grub2. Post the contents of menu.lst from openSUSE.
Any help Please.
You’ve had this issue for quite some time now.
Because it’s a WUBI install you will get very little help here, since it’s an Ubuntu thing.
My suggestion is to try Ubuntu forums, making sure you mention WUBI in your post.
Yeah man, sucks you’re still having this issue. I think the good news is that you should still be able to salvage your data, so be sure to create a back-up of it before proceeding further. I don’t know much about Wubi, but I’d venture a guess and say that because it’s inside the Windows partition (basically a file within a file in a yet unmounted partition at start up), SUSE’s grub doesn’t recognize it?
Unless I’m totally wrong and Wubi does, in fact, write to Vista’s MBR. I always thought Wubi was a way to get Windows users to try Ubuntu without making permanent [1] changes to the disk.
[1] As in a sort of VMWare/VirtualBox or LiveCD, where changes are as permanent as you want them to be.
I didn’t know Wubi was and ubuntu thing, but thanks Thanks for helping…
IIRC Wubi is a Ubuntu Linux with a partition inside a Windows file. They do some interesting gymnastics to boot it up, so it’s not surprising that if you overwrote the GRUB setup you would lose access to it.
Why not boot with the Ubuntu Live CD and see if you can recover the data with that and write it to an external disk or something. Then come back to openSUSE.
Thats great news thanks, in the meantime I shall order a good usb memory stick for the proccess