[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1553687] Re: Lenovo Y700-17ISK Boot Error: Failure writing sector 0x21c8800 to 'hd0'

2016-05-25 Thread Jeb Rosen
I finally got down to do some debugging. I downloaded the grub source via apt and made some changes to the source code. Specifically, near line 567 of grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c, adding the status code to the error message: "failure writing sector 0x%llx to `%s' [status %lx]" with variable

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1553687] Re: Lenovo Y700-17ISK Boot Error: Failure writing sector 0x21c8800 to 'hd0'

2016-05-15 Thread Jeb Rosen
I am experiencing the same issue on the related Lenovo Y700-15ISK (same machine, 15" version) with Xubuntu 16.04. This seems to be an issue in grub, not related to the kernel. The error message string is from grub-core/disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c in GRUB2. As far as I can understand the code, the