Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 11/07/15 12:10 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB
> key by using grub-rescue-pc package.
>
> On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do
>
>    # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb
>    this takes a while.
>
> When I boot to key, I get "GRUB" in upper left corner and a long wait
> during which the key LED flashes. After a while I get:
>
>    GRUB error: failure reading sector 0x48c from 'hd0'
>    Entering rescue mode
>    grub rescue>
>
> I suspect hd0 refers to the key and GRUB can't find its own grub
> folder. I don't know how to proceed.

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