Comment 96 for bug 96084

I have meet the same problme, following is detail
I use my IBM T43 with ubuntu 7.04 for servral month, and after the reboot this night, i can't login the system.
display 'can't access tty...etc'.

I want to konw the status of this bug, is it closed? and how about the solution?
I have many important data in my computer, so I just want to konw how can I login into my ubunut from BusyBox prompt?

Please send me email if any one konw how to recover my data, my email address is <email address hidden>,,many thanks.

PS: If i want to re-install ubuntu, how to ensure the data not lost?