Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

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Subject: Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector
From: Louis Wust <louiswust@fastmail.fm>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 12:24:56 -0400
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 12:10, Haines Brown wrote:
> cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb 

I suspect you need "dd" instead of "cp" as specified in the package
documentation at /usr/share/doc/grub-rescue-pc/README.Debian:

  sudo dd if=grub-rescue-usb.img of=/dev/sdb bs=32k

Try running that and booting again.

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