On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:28:58PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > the promised attachment, inline
A perusal of the syslog turned up this A perusal of the syslog turned up this Jul 28 01:27:32 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdc' Jul 28 01:27:32 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy Jul 28 01:27:32 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force "/dev/sdc" Jul 28 01:27:32 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform. Jul 28 01:27:33 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported. Jul 28 01:27:33 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully In our case, the installer prompted us for the grub device to install to. We entered /dev/sdc. However we did not explicitly set the root partition anywhere; something set it to /dev/sdc1 instead of a UUID= string. Vince