Cannot boot WUBI installed Ubuntu with Windows 8 [duplicate]

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I installed Ubuntu on Samsung laptop with Windows 8, everything went fine but on booting with Ubuntu I get the following message:

\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr
status 0xc000007b
The application or operating system cold not be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors.

Any solutions? I also cannot boot from USB.

Answer 1

Disable UEFI in your bios, and you should be good. You can usually do this by choosing "Legacy Boot Mode" under the UEFI option.

UEFI is a cancer on digital freedoms, whether or not people want to admit it.

Source: I just bought a Thinkpad Edge E535 and went through this about 5 hours ago.

Answer 2

The filename \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr suggests you're using WUBI, which is a way to install Ubuntu onto a file stored in a Windows filesystem rather than on a separate partition. WUBI is good for trying out Ubuntu, but it's a bit weird and inflexible compared to a more conventional installation. Of importance to you, I don't know offhand if WUBI is compatible with EFI, which you're almost certainly using if the computer shipped with Windows 8. (If you've installed Windows 8 yourself on an older computer, though, all bets are off with respect to BIOS vs. EFI booting.)

Looking at your partition table should answer some of the questions and enable you to move forward down the correct path (WUBI vs. a standard installation; EFI vs. BIOS). I recommend you boot to a Linux emergency disc and run the following text-mode command:

sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print

If you've got multiple hard disks, repeat that for each one (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.). Post the results here, or post a link to a Web page with the results.

Answer 3

Secure Boot is currently not supported on 12.04. It is supported on 12.10. This solution will be backported to LTS on 12.04.2. Just to prove that it is the case, you can try booting 12.10 from an USB.

Answer 4

The bug report on launchpad is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/694242

Please vote for it.

Answer 5

its simple install wubi with ubuntu 10.04.4 and then upgrade it and you can dual boot with the uefi disabled ,for unknown reasons uefi doesnot do anything with wubi along with 10.04.4,this gives me the suspicion that probably ubuntu has removed some files from 12.04 compared to 10.04 that prevents dual boot,i have tried it and mine works super smooth .I have no uefi i have bios

Answer 6

As Rod Smith highlights due to many reasons wubi is a short term option and personally have found using .iso for installation of Ubuntu far more successful the only difference is preparing the free space/partitioning from windows before booting to .iso. Had posted this recently to Wolverine's question and thought sharing the fact there is an alternative option for managing secure boot might be beneficial with regard to the question that is asked here also(in response to Wolverines answer)

Have posted a similar question six months ago and due to being unable to load kernel led to installing a non-linux alternative OS which due to losing the ESP and having no EFI shell or EFI GUI in my particular case has led to spending time in getting a working answer on how to manage an EFI install. Referring to your question previously led me to believe that using the 12.10 64bit iso would be a cure all but my problem has not been resolved. I am not a bug tracker or developer and did struggle to digest what was being referred to here which Wolverine found helpful too.

Since starting on the quest to make use of the EFI capabilities of my newest hardware have been spending more time on these very useful pages which includes a good synopsis of how to perform an Ubuntu install on a Secure Boot enabled machine and highlight there are other options other than relying on Grub2 and signed keys from Microsoft. Which your answer indicates as the be all and end all. Just thought would share this is not the case. As the last link shows using rEFInd and your own keys it is possible to manage a linux install with Secure Boot enabled. The alternative is to turn Secure Boot off. Hope you enjoy the reading as much as I!

Another useful source of helpful information regarding all things U/EFI is the wiki article here (which links to a EUFI page which scares me no end! Science fiction is not fiction!:p)

Canonical have confirmed WUBI is not/will not be supported for Raring 13.04 as discussed here due mostly to its U/EFI deficiencies.