It's the installer that defaults to sda, and as you found, you just need
to switch it if that's not your boot drive.
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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worked on 2nd attempt: when doing manually...
grub wrongly assumed sda to be boot device. as it was a brand new hard disk
there probably was no MBR to write to, yet.
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