I got around to fixing my desktop today. In addition to the instructions I posted above and the procedure to mount system directories below, there was only one necessary change:
https://gist.github.com/samuelcolvin/43c5ed2807e7db004b1058d0c9bfb068 That guy suggested used grub-install /dev/sda instead of dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc. That worked no problem. Thanks for your help! Todd On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 23:04:17 +0100 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 05:08:44PM -0400, Todd Howe wrote: > > ls /media/root/$UUID > > apt install grub > > grub-install --root-directory=/media/root/$UUID /dev/sda > > I generally don't recommend this sort of approach. Instead, and > simpler: > > for x in dev proc sys; do > mount --rbind "/$x" "/media/root/$UUID/$x" > done > chroot "/media/root/$UUID/$x" > dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc > exit > for x in dev proc sys; do > umount -l "/media/root/$UUID/$x" > done > > (Untested and there may be some minor roadblocks, but this is my usual > approach; if you do this interactively then hopefully it'll be > reasonably clear how to make whatever minor adjustments are needed. I > think it's essentially just the bind-mounts that you were missing when > you tried to chroot later on.) > > -- > Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org] > >