On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:25:19 -0400, Haines wrote in message
<20210803172519.GG29739@???>:

> I'm doing a cross install of beowulf. BIOS is legacy. All goes well
> until the end when I run /#: grub-install /dev/sdc .
>

>         Installing for i386-pc platform.
>         device node not found
>         ...
>         Installation finished. No error reported.

>
> I should mention that when I initially ran the command my terminal
> (mlterm) crashed (that sometimes happens). So I had to chroot again
> to the mount point /mnt/devinst/
>
> It seems that the grub-install cannot see the mbr on /dev/sdc

..is there one? 'fdisk -l ' or somesuch should work, even if
there are some new fancy /dev names missing symlinks to /dev/sdc,
e.g. killed by that mlterm crash.

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