Ubuntu 11.04 on Dell Vostro 3550 - FAIL

Previous: Getting Instiki wiki working on Ubuntu 11.04

I was thinking Natty and Wubi were having a spat. I couldn't get Ubuntu 11.04 running on a Dell Vostro 3550 using Wubi. After using it under VmWare for a while, I tried Wubi again and it worked. Things went very well for a week or so, and then one fine boot it blew chunks, just as it had done before. I could find no help online for the problem, but I did discover several postings that mentioned some kind of deep incompatibility between Ubuntu 11.04 and the Dell Vostro 3550, despite the fact some other Vostro models actually ship with Ubuntu pre-installed. So, the problem isn't an issue with Wubi after all, but an issue with this particular laptop model.

Next: Installing Coffeescript on Ubuntu 11.04