Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Please don't hijack threads. This doesn't have anything to do with Gary's USB HDD problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Louis Wust
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

GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Brian
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:

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
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

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 12:10:15 -0400, 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