Grub on Dead Disk solved
I missed the INSTALL_DEVICE and now the script works. The next step is to see if the drive boots but I just forgot that one important detail. Sorry to waste anyone's time. Martin
Grub on Dead Disk
I had this same problem late last Fall on this same drive and am not sure what is going on because there is another Linux system here whose drive is arranged exactly the same way. An update in March modified grub and I didn't even give it a thought because that system just works but after