I had this problem yesterday because I'm using an LVM boot partition and /dev/mapper/VolumeGroup-LogicalVolume was a symlink to /dev/dm-X. After removing the symlink and running "cp -R /dev/dm-X /dev/mapper /VolumeGroup-LogicalVolume", I could run grub-install successfully.
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