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How does WUBI handle partitions upon shutdown?

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Mar 15, 2026891 views
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Alright, so, basically, I'm trying to boot up Gentoo in a manner similar to WUBI; I have an installation on an ext4-formatted loopback file, BURG installed under the Windows Bootloader, and the kernel/initramfs available for booting. The booting still has some issues (those I think I can work out, …

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#!/bin/sh

# Rescue shell in case of error.
rescue_shell() {
     echo "Something went wrong. Dropping you to a shell."
     exec /bin/sh
 }

parse_o…

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Not an expert here, but after reading the manpage I see a flag specific to loop mounted devices: Also reading further into (in manpages still), I would suggest you to maybe use it to debug as it can be used to see the status of loop mounted devices.…

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