xubuntu 19.10 fails to install with /boot on different drive - grub-install error

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 02:30:10PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 11:28, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> > I'm installing from a USB stick, the installation starts OK, when I
> > get to the disk allocation bit I select 'something else' and tell it
> > to mount / on /dev/nvme0n1p2 and /boot on /dev/sda1 (which is a SATA
> > drive visible to the BIOS).
> 
> OK, but you're *also* going to have to change the setting for which
> device to install GRUB to, I guess.
> 
> It sounds like it's trying and failing to put GRUB on the NVME drive.
> 
Since I do have a bootable system does this mean I'm OK in terms of
what grub-install does?  I.e. does grub-install just install the MBR
(if legacy BIOS) and grub files associated with that?

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Chris Green