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: https://lists.debian.org/20150713102853.gb8...@chew.

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

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 >

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/READM

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
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 pro