Comment 48 for bug 206316

Soooooo, I am now considering starting a BLOG as this matter has become so entailing! LOL Just kidding. SO, it has happened again, this time to the extent that I was unable to recover in the usual manner because after I selected - repair - the whole system completely froze in recovery mode as well and upon reboot, I completely lost video so ouy of frustration, I resorted to using my Windows system on my laptop. Now THAT IS BAD! I also was able to determine as the very start of the boot dialog that this BUG is loaded even before the BOOT SECTOR is loaded. This reminds me of the archaic viruses which plagued Windows 3.11 running DOS 6.11 of which the worst were of a genere known as TSR, "Terminate and Stay Resident", thus called TSR as they became more common. These also were pre-loaded before the BOOT SECTOR was loaded causing them to be much more resilient than regular virus'.
The only way to cure most of these was to boot into DOS and load the back-up copy of the original MBR, or Master Boot Record. Yhis was always found at the very end of the hard drive, no matter how litle data was on the drive, so as to separate it and therefore protect it from the rest of the data on the drive. It was also contained in its own separate sector of which didn't even show up on normal scans of the drive. Sort of like NTFS now does, but before the time when NTFS came to exist. I originaly installed the OS as UBUNTU 8.10d Desktop i386 Live CD burned on 11/16/08 on a University of Texas Library computer so I am certain it contained no BUGS. I didn't experience the problem until I upgraded to UBUNTU STUDIO 10.10.I hooe this last bit of info along with the history lesson may help in "killing" the BUG". Until then, I am outta here. Roman Littlestork