Comment 60 for bug 653134

My experience, for what it's worth:

A netbook wubi installation of Kubuntu 10.10 (upgraded from 10.04) worked ok, and then broke one day recently (probably after an update). After selecting kubuntu from the Windows XP boot menu, it would momentarily flash the following 3 errors:

error: file not found
error: file not found
error: no suitable mode found

and right after that the screen went blank and system stuck - only a cold boot, with holding the power button down for 5 seconds or so, would get it out of this state.

Copying the "wubildr" file from C:\ubuntu\winboot to C:\ as suggested above (overwriting an existing wubildr in the root directory) fixed the problem.

I don't know if this is a bug in wubi or grub or ubuntu packaging, but a system update that prevents the system from booting is a critical bug, and should be fixed within a couple of days tops from first being reported... not lingering on for weeks or months leaving many users with unusable systems and wasting hours of their time trying to find manual workarounds. Sorry for the rant, but I've suffered another critical bug recently (preventing the mouse from working on a desktop), which has gone unresolved for a couple of months too even though hundreds of reports came in, and probably thousands of affected users have been unable to use their systems. Whomever has a say in it, please try to re-assess ubuntu's priorities...