I’d love to go into detail about how I hacked together this awesome way to install wubi from the loopback mount onto it’s own partition. Truth be told, save for a quick boot loader edit, I did almost nothing.

Take a look at this site: http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html for a complete, visual step-by-step on how to install your wubi instance directly to your hard drive.

The only issue I ran into was with booting into Parted Magic. The DEB I was instructed to install pointed at the wrong disk for root() in the GRUB line. It was as easy as editing /boot/grub/menu.lst to point it at the right place.

In /boot/grub/menu.lst search for ubninit. Change the root line above where you landed to look like this:

root(hd0,)

Rather than this:

root(hd1,)

Enjoy!