Grub bootloader installation bug report

[Midnight Matt]

To whom it may concern:

I have tried and failed to manually install a grub bootloader onto an external 
hard drive. So here is the output from the `/usr/sbin/grub-probe 
--device-map="/media/EHD/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v 
/media/EHD/boot/grub` command as requested:

Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/sdb1 failed.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: cannot open `/media/EHD/boot/grub/device.map'.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd1 for LVM.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos5 for LVM.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos1 for LVM.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 117304992.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd1 for LVM.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd1,msdos1 for LVM.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: /dev/sdb1 starts from 2048.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening the device /dev/sdb.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of /dev/sdb is 155907768.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: Partition 0 starts from 256.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check 
your device.map.

I hope this is of use in resolving this situation.

Sincerely,
-matthew dodt
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