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  1. Bug #1553687
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1553687

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aljosa (aljosa-p) wrote :

I'm certainly not an expert, so here's some interesting Google results:

'failure writing to sector'
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.99-21ubuntu3.15
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1253443

aljosa wrote: "I installed Xenial for the first time at the beginning of February. Initially I didn't have this error."
Christopher wrote: "I finally got down to do some debugging. failure writing sector corresponds to GRUB_EFI_NO_MEDIA."
GRUB patch introduced in February: "GRUB_EFI_NO_MEDIA" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-02/msg00018.html