Installing Wubi on HP Pavilion notebook

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I liked Wubi so well on my Acer netbook that I installed it on my wife's HP Pavilion laptop as well. After rebooting the first time to complete the basic installation, the grub boot loader would never recognize the Linux OS. I tried various this to fix it but was unable to get it to work.

I noticed that the Wubi installer site always downloaded the 64-bit version of the program and offered no way to override this. The Wubi FAQ at http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php includes an entry about installing the 32-bit version of Wubi. It suggested running Wubi from a command line with the 32-bit option:

wubi --32bit

This worked, and the HP Pavilion now has an Ubuntu instance installed.

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