Merge lp:~ubuntu-installer/wubi/hardy.proposed.old into lp:wubi/8.04

[Agostino Russo]

[lp:~ubuntu-installer/wubi/hardy.proposed.old]

506. By Agostino Russo on 2008-05-02

* Better not to patch grub4dos to change default strings, since the
  change in the text notifications created some confusion and
  debugging issues.
* Upgraded grub4dos to rev 59 which addresses the Gate A20 jam (LP
  #224311)
* Set version in settings to 8.04.1
* Added more logging info to installer_bootloader in order to help
  with #225068

507. By Agostino Russo on 2008-05-07

* Turn on debugging and boot in verbose mode when booting workarounds
  are turned on

* Fixed race condition in Vista BCD editing (LP: #227023)

Unmerged revisions

507. By Agostino Russo on 2008-05-07

* Turn on debugging and boot in verbose mode when booting workarounds
  are turned on

* Fixed race condition in Vista BCD editing (LP: #227023)

506. By Agostino Russo on 2008-05-02

* Better not to patch grub4dos to change default strings, since the
  change in the text notifications created some confusion and
  debugging issues.
* Upgraded grub4dos to rev 59 which addresses the Gate A20 jam (LP
  #224311)
* Set version in settings to 8.04.1
* Added more logging info to installer_bootloader in order to help
  with #225068

505. By Agostino Russo on 2008-04-30

* Reverted eject CD changes, since postponing the call did not
  actually solve #204128
* Updated metalink URLs to point to 8.04.1
* Use Bias instead of ActiveTimeBias to detect timezone (LP: #221192)
* Added 7z self extracting capabilities to avoid problems when the CD
  is ejected and Wubi is run from the CD (LP: #204128)
* Delete installation files upon successful installation (LP: #223001)

504. By Agostino Russo on 2008-04-30

* No longer in beta
* Added jkdefrag to defragment the swap.disk (LP: #222546)
* Moved eject call to last position (LP: #204128)

503. By Agostino Russo on 2008-04-28

* Use warnings instead of errors when resource checks fail (LP:
  #223155)

502. By Agostino Russo on 2008-04-28

* Modified embedded menu.lst as suggested by tinybit to allow for
  proper fallbacks
* Detect country using iCountry as opposed to sCountry, which is
  localized (LP: #223250)