Comment 4 for bug 482735

I tried the disk in other machines and it worked fine. However, no one
seems to care about these things. Since Hardy the bugs have just kept
piling up and the focus seems to on shortening boot times - and leaving
behind those that cannot boot at all. I think we need a new term to
reflect the "Ubuntel" paradigm - similar to the Wintel paradigm I
thought I had left behind. If your latest Ubuntu doesn't work, just buy
a new machine. Repeat until it works.

It is a worrying trend.

northrup wrote:
> I'm having a similar issue, but at boot-time. I'm trying to guide my
> mom through booting off an Ubuntu 9.10 LiveCD to repair a Windows
> installation on her Gateway laptop (I don't have the specs, sorry), but
> she's getting the "fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed" error
> message right after she selects either the "Try Ubuntu without making
> any changes" or the "OEM Install" options. The install CD was shipped
> from Canonical, so I'd hope there aren't any disk errors.
>
> I'll try to get the stop screen word-for-word next time I work with the
> computer, but for now, what generally causes this kind of error message?
> Is it a hardware issue, or did I get a defective disk after all? I told
> my mom to run the "Check disk for errors" option, but I think she got a
> similar screen...
>