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Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector



On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 12:24:56 -0400, Louis Wust wrote:

> 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:

It shouldn't make any difference. cp (and cat) works for me.
 
>   sudo dd if=grub-rescue-usb.img of=/dev/sdb bs=32k
> 
> Try running that and booting again.

Trying again is worthwhile. With a different stick, perhaps. There might
have been a write error.



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