I have tried 'boot-repair' in normal and advanced mode and have tried 
reinstalling grub via sudo grub-install /dev/sda1 (then sda2, and finally 
simply sda). All of these approaches have reported 'success' in bash/terminal 
etc - but none have actually solved my problem.
Actually I'm wondering where my 'working' grub is actually installed. I have a 
UEFI machine which originally came with Windows 8. On installing Ubuntu I did 
what was necessary to allow Ubuntu 14.04 to be installed successfully instead 
of Windows, and have 3 partitions: sda1 is allegedly my boot partition (Fat 
32), sda2 my main partition and finally there is a sda3 - for Linux-Swap. I 
suppose it is possible I have two grubs installed, one in sda1 and the other in 
sda2. Is it possible that a delay in reaching the 'working' grub (say in sda2) 
is provoking the 'no symbol table found' error in Ubuntu 16.10? 
I wonder what would happen if I deleted partition sda1, expanded sda2 into its 
space and then tried boot-repair via usb? Or maybe kept all 3 partitions but 
converted sda1 to ext4. However, I'm reluctant to risk these approaches for 
fear of not being able to recover my system.

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