[Bug 838040] Re: Wubi installer fails to run after choosing install inside windows

[Erick Brunzell]

Good news, the Wubi install completed successfully. No glitches at all
other than the way ubiquity handles the reboot after selecting "install
inside windows" and clicking on "continue". The photo attached in my
last post is of the screen following those steps.

Then the CD is not ejected and there is no prompt to remove CD or press
enter to reboot. I tried every key-combo I could imagine and the only
way to reboot was to use the reset button on the box.

The photo I'm including here is what happens with Natty, which then also
ejects the CD and instructs to press enter.

Does that make sense?

To be very clear the photo attached to comment #1 is that of Ubuntu
Oneiric 20110901-i386 (the broken behavior) where the disc is not
ejected and I couldn't reboot.

The photo attached to this comment is of Natty behavior which works
fine.

Hope that helps, not sure how we'd word this in the release notes for
Beta 1?


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Title:
  Wubi installer fails to run after choosing install inside windows

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I do not often use Wubi so this definitely needs to be confirmed by
  someone else, but with Beta upon us and the final not far off I wanted
  to be sure the "Wubi offered if four primary partitions exist" feature
  in the live installer worked properly.

  I performed this test first using the Lubuntu 20110830.2-i386 live CD
  and after it partially failed I repeated the test with the Ubuntu
  20110831-i386 iso which also failed.

  Now, the installer offers the correct options; install inside Win,
  replace Win, or something else. But after selecting "inside windows"
  and rebooting I waited and waited after booting Win XP and the
  wubi.exe never did launch.

  I then performed a retest with a Natty final image to be sure my
  memory wasn't failing me.

  So, unless this change was intentional, probably Evan Dandrea needs to
  have a look at what may have changed.

  To be honest I remember wondering during Natty testing why the user
  wasn't just prompted to insert the disc after booting into Windows?
  That would save a fresh download for those who have limited download
  plans or slow networks.

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