[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Hanne Paine]

Hello Linux Heroes,

Sorry to spam, but I thought I might ask your advice on a bit of an
emergency problem. One of my friends, an XP user, had a old Ubuntu
partition that wasn't working at all, so he deleted it and decided to
reinstall the latest version. He downloaded Wubi and followed its
instructions, but when he rebooted he got nothing but

GRUB loading
error: no such partition
grub rescue >

After amateurishly poking around in forums for a bit (I won't pretend to
know anything at all about XP *or *installing Ubuntu ), I found this -
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Wubi_9.10
- which
looks like what we've got going on here. Unfortunately, it seems to require
rebooting from the XP install disk, which he doesn't have.

Advice?

Thanks so much. I hope finals are treating you all well.

Hanne Paine
President, Stony Brook Computing Society
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