Comment 12 for bug 669459

This BUG is worse than any I've ever experienced. PLEASE GIVE IT SOME HIGH PRIORITY!!! I am not a programmer, user only. I wish I could help fix it. I've seen this one cause a newly installed Ubuntu 10.10 installation to not boot using IBM boot manager. Boot manager was set up to point to that specific Linux drive but now, boot manager can't see or edit it. When trying to boot, the screen comes back and says the drive is not formatted. Yet I can boot from a cd and look at the drive and see that there are the Linux directories present. Strangely enough, the OS2 install survived it. In another instance, the OS/2 drives are rendered inert. In both cases however, the windoze installs have survived. This one is also reported on the eComstation bug list. Please help. This one is more serious than given credit for being. There are business files and such involved here. It's back up but so what? That doesn't fix the problem. Please find a way to repair damaged drives.