Comment 37 for bug 358654

I seem to be living in a "house of cards" here... I began 3 days ago with this bug but made the not-so-good choice to work backwards starting from the end "... does not exist" message -- see question #125176. My twist is to find /dev/sdb partition table garbled-or-missing. Today I fail to boot a newly downloaded live 10.04.1 to apply the fix above #31 by Chandra [specifically it seems to begin booting then fail prior to any message]. None of the previous boot options function from the grub menu on HD. PXE boot options also yield different [than a week ago] results from various OS choices. In short -- 3 days of no joy...

Summary:
The machine is a white box - 32bit workstation built on a dual-AMD server mobo. The file system is built on 2 SATA drives in BIOS RAID 0 & LVM. It was assembled a year ago and Fedora 12 was the OS. Three months ago the ubuntu 10.04 LTS was added via network install option in a new LV for dual-boot purposes - dual boot was soon abandon and only 10.04 ran 24-7. The boot failure on 9/11 following safe-upgrade is the first problem encountered. It's a killer.

I now view my problem as one of finding a successful live OS option to apply a Chandra-like fix. What makes my system so vulnerable remains a mystery to me. I expect to run out of options [patience(?)] after a couple more days and resort to re-install. In the mean time I'll provide anything that might be helpful to others...