On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius@pov.lt> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:34:06AM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> I installed Ubuntu 11.04 by Wubi and then copied the ubuntu folder
>> from C: to D: drive what changes should I make in grub and where as
>> the grub folder was empty.
>
> Inside the Wubi image.
>
> You need to boot your Ubuntu and then reinstall Grub, I think.
>
> To boot, get a USB key (or a CD) with GRUB, and do the following in the
> GRUB console (I'm assuming D: is /dev/sda2, i.e. the second partition of
> your first hard disk):
>
> *insmod ntfs
> *set root=(hd0,2) * <--- if you boot from CD
> *set root=(hd1,2) * <--- if you boot from USB
> *loopback loop0 /ubuntu/disks/root.disk
> *linux /boot/vmlinuz-.... root=/dev/sda2 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
> *initrd /boot/initrd.img-....
> *boot
>
> You'll need to do some looking around or tab-completion to get the exact
> filenames of your kernel/initrd images (and make sure the versions
> match!).
>
> If your D: is on a separate hard disk, replace /dev/sda2 with /dev/sdb1
> and (hd0,2) with (hd1,1), as appropriate.
>
> Once you've booted, you'll need to edit the GRUB configuration files, tell them
> your root.disk is now not on (hd0,1) but somewhere else -- you should
> have already figured out where -- then regenerate grub.conf with
> update-grub. *I'm not sure that will be enough; I don't recall how
> precisely is grub loaded from NTLDR and how it is able to find its
> grub.cfg. *You may need to regenerate the block map (assuming grub even
> has one), or something like that.
>
> Marius Gedminas
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Ok I did some hit and trial and then bootinfo script gave following
http://paste.ubuntu.com/716700/
Above is result of bootinfo script.

I had copied my ubuntu folder from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda5 so I made
corresponding change in grub.cfg

replaced uuid

E4ACAFF5ACAFC082
by
8E9E86339E86143D
but still upon reboot I got the following error

file:ubuntuwinbootwubildr.mbr
Status: 0xc000000f
Selected entry could not be located because the application is missing
or corrupt


I digged further and found
and bcdedit command shows

C:Windowssystem32>bcdedit


Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {913c60b1-d90e-11e0-9e01-869473ab8036}
device partition=C:
path ubuntuwinbootwubildr.mbr
description Ubuntu

Above is wrong as when I copied every thing from C: to D: so here
also the entries should change.
What possibly more do I need to do now? Apart from changing grub.cfg?

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On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok I did some hit and trial and then bootinfo script gave following
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/716700/
> Above is result of bootinfo script.
>
> I had copied my ubuntu folder from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda5 so I made
> corresponding change in grub.cfg
>
> replaced uuid
>
> * * E4ACAFF5ACAFC082
> by
> 8E9E86339E86143D
> but still upon reboot I got the following error
>
> file:ubuntuwinbootwubildr.mbr
> Status: 0xc000000f
> Selected entry could not be located because the application is missing
> or corrupt
>
>
> I digged further and found
> and bcdedit command shows
>
> C:Windowssystem32>bcdedit
>
>
> Real-mode Boot Sector
> ---------------------
> identifier * * * * * * *{913c60b1-d90e-11e0-9e01-869473ab8036}
> device * * * * * * * * *partition=C:
> path * * * * * * * * * *ubuntuwinbootwubildr.mbr
> description * * * * * * Ubuntu
>
> Above *is wrong as when I copied every thing from C: to D: so here
> also the entries should change.
> What possibly more do I need to do now? Apart from changing grub.cfg?


Since wubi is about testing Ubuntu to just see how it looks like, I
think it is time for you to move to a normal, dual boot (it means
keeping windows installed), installation.


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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Ioannis Vranos
<ioannis.vranos@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok I did some hit and trial and then bootinfo script gave following
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/716700/
>> Above is result of bootinfo script.
>>
>> I had copied my ubuntu folder from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda5 so I made
>> corresponding change in grub.cfg
>>
>> replaced uuid
>>
>> * * E4ACAFF5ACAFC082
>> by
>> 8E9E86339E86143D
>> but still upon reboot I got the following error
>>
>> file:ubuntuwinbootwubildr.mbr
>> Status: 0xc000000f
>> Selected entry could not be located because the application is missing
>> or corrupt
>>
>>
>> I digged further and found
>> and bcdedit command shows
>>
>> C:Windowssystem32>bcdedit
>>
>>
>> Real-mode Boot Sector
>> ---------------------
>> identifier * * * * * * *{913c60b1-d90e-11e0-9e01-869473ab8036}
>> device * * * * * * * * *partition=C:
>> path * * * * * * * * * *ubuntuwinbootwubildr.mbr
>> description * * * * * * Ubuntu
>>
>> Above *is wrong as when I copied every thing from C: to D: so here
>> also the entries should change.
>> What possibly more do I need to do now? Apart from changing grub.cfg?
>
>
> Since wubi is about testing Ubuntu to just see how it looks like, I
> think it is time for you to move to a normal, dual boot (it means
> keeping windows installed), installation.
>
>
> --
Ok I have been able to fix this.Here are a few helpful links.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/70783/move-a-wubi-installation-to-another-partition
http://askubuntu.com/questions/56726/can-i-copy-my-wubi-install-between-machines
It is not as straight forward as I thought.

Create a folder C:ubuntuwinboot and place wubildr.mbr in it and then
fix the bcd entry using easybcd.As shown here.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/20340/how-to-restore-the-wubi-ubuntu-bootloader/
Since I had copied my entire C:ubuntu folder to D:ubuntu so winboot
folder also had moved away and that was what was creating problem on
stage 1.
So in case some one wants to move Wubi install to a different machine
or a partition

1)Use bootinfo.sh and find out new location of root then edit grub
2) Windows boot loader can be edited by easybcd but the
C:ubuntuwinboot folder must be present for windows boot loader to
give you access to grub2 and then
corresponding Ubuntu finding the identifier string for bcdedit is why
you need easybcd so suppose you want to have
D:ubuntuwinboot and then boot from there then what is the identifier
string for D: drive that you will know only via easybcd otherwise just
keep corresponding winboot in C:ubuntu only

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