Comment 26 for bug 762203

Sorry, but sometimes in the heat of trying things we/I are not sure exactly what we've done.
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I have a windows XP recovery partition (sony), a windows XP OS C: partition, an XP D: partition, then Ubuntu 11.04.
Out of frustration I tried Fedora (sorry) installed alongside and that really messed things up. Boot options only gave me Fedora14 and the XP recovery boot. No XP OS or Ubuntu.
Loaded my Ubuntu 10.10 LiveCD, Deleted the Fedora partition and loaded 10.10 there.
Boot options now gave me XP recovery, XP OS, Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04.
All worked correctly except 11.04 which started up OK but had no gnome-panel. Would consistently start-up and close down OK.
Added gnome-panel to start-up applications and 11.04 works fine and shuts down fine every time.
Removed 10.10 partition and had to re-install grub.
Result... All boot options work fine, no white blocky screen with either 11.04 normal boot or Ubuntu recovery boot.
The boot options screen is different, smaller font and a white border around.
All my start-up and shut-down operations work fine now consistently.
The problem is that all seems OK but I have no real idea why.