On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 17:31 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > The solution that worked for me was to run check the > debian boot partition with gparted (e2fsck -cfkp). While I did not note > any addition bad sectors, etc. the issue seems to have been resolved. I didn't think of it, but (somebody else or) I should have mentioned to check the partition :S.