I think the duplicate status is wrong. At a newer reinstall I experienced #477104 (which is minimal grub shell at boot) after a kernel update to 2.6.31-15, but I could recover from that. The recovery method, however, does not work with this "version" of the bug (kernel panic).
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 477104 After 9.10 grub update can not boot into Wubi install -- Wubi/Karmic boot: kernel panic - not synching: VFS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477169 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs