I can reproduce this and I've been working on it with a debugger for the
last day or so.  The crash occurs when trying to read a line from
grub.cfg after executing the 'if loadfont ... fi' block.  'set
root=(loop0)' has been a source of trouble in the past, although I was
fairly sure we'd fixed that; but I suspect that it may well be unrelated
to that, and that it's either memory corruption somewhere deep inside
GRUB, or else is a bug related to the specific layout of the NTFS
filesystem (there's a "read out of range" error being thrown in the
depths of the NTFS driver, although this could be a knock-on failure
from something else; however, grub-fstest can read the whole of
/ubuntu/disks/root.disk correctly, so it doesn't seem as simple as a
straightforward filesystem driver bug).

When I've seen things like this in the past, they've gone away when I
tried to build modified versions of GRUB to debug them.  Thus, I'm using
entirely non-invasive techniques here.

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Title:
  Natty Wubi grub prompt on non-windows partition install

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