location configuration

[Felix Miata]

From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#File_Structure:

  To find out where GRUB 2 is installed, the user can run the following 
commands:

    Device: sudo grub-probe -t device /boot/grub

    UUID: sudo grub-probe -t fs_uuid /boot/grub

That's nice as far as it goes, which is no help to me. I'm trying to 
reconfigure a broken multiboot system, and need to know where Grub2 was or 
should have been installed while booted to an OS with no Grub2 installed. Is 
this covered somewhere on 
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html ? Looking at the 
index nothing jumps out at me.

What I think happened is that Ubuntu was installed, but without bootloader 
installation anywhere. /boot/grub obviously contains Grub2 files, but there 
is no grub.cfg there, thus no way to estimate cmdline options to get it to 
boot from some other bootloader. I see nothing in /etc/default/grub or 
/etc/grub.d/ that would seem to indicate whether Grub2 was or should have 
been installed to MBR, or /boot or /. How do I tell?
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