On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: > I might try nerfing the parted and grub stage 1 bootloaders on disk2, > and see if the grub shell (which I should still get to from disk 1) > will let me install grub directly on these two drives properly. OK I did that and this works. ## At the GRUB boot menu, hit c to get to a shell grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> setup (hd1) That's it. What I did to test is was I zero'd the first 440 bytes of vdb and the the first 512 bytes of vdb1. I confirmed that this disk alone does not boot at all. After running the above commands, either drive boots. NOW, I get to say I've seen stage 1.5 get used because when it did the setup, it said it was embedding /grub/e2fs_stage1_5. In the above case hd0,0 is first disk first partition which is /boot. Anyway, this seems about 8 million times easier than linux grub-install CLI. Now I get to look back at OP's first email and see if he did this exact same thing already, and whether we've come full circle. -- Chris Murphy