Quote Originally Posted by Taconvino View Post
This happened to me as well, and found your post. However, this line is confusing me:

grub-install /dev/sda

Is that correct? That's the first mention to "/dev/sda" in the instructions. Thought I'd check first, before causing any problems.
/dev/sda is the name of your hard disk. It can be different for different storage units. Always use fdisk -l to see the name of your device.