[NBLUG/talk] WUBI-installed Ubuntu damaged by automatic updates

[T]

I dual boot as well; however, I am using grub and only grub to boot.  
Neither of my os'es conflict with eachother when they update, cept  
10.04->10.10 killing itself, but not windows. I say just use grub!

On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:06 PM, "Bob Blick" <bobblick at ftml.net> wrote:

> WUBI lets you dual-boot using the Windows bootloader, with Linux
> installed within the Windows filesystem.
>
> My laptop that is running a WUBI-installed version of Ubuntu 10.04 had
> been working fine and I had even done a couple of automatic updates,
> just the regular ones, not the version upgrade. But an update a few
> weeks ago killed the installation. I'd get a flash of some grub  
> message
> and then the laptop would reboot again.
>
> In the past I recall the automatic update screen would sometimes  
> have a
> checkbox for WUBI users to keep me from updating something that would
> not be compatible with WUBI. This time there was no warning checkbox.
>
> So I did a full reinstall(I am good about backups so no big deal) and
> then it blew up the same way when I did the first automatic update.
>
> I can't find anything relating to my situation on the web, mostly all
> the WUBI-death news regards version upgrade issues.
>
> I guess it's time for me to get smart about this. I figure it's either
> GRUB or kernel upgrades that are killing the install. So I can  
> manually
> deselect the offending update if I know which one. I figure it's
> probably GRUB. But when the kernel gets updated GRUB always needs to  
> be
> reconfigured, so I don't know.
>
> Any ideas? I like WUBI better than the normal dual-boot installation
> except for this one problem :(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
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