my 2018.

1 install was successful but I have no grub boot loader despite agreeing to
all grub/MBR items during the install. I only see Windows Boot Management in CMOS
and on boot it just boots to Windows. I can run Live Kali from my install DVD

my fdisk -l
root@kali:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D249AB9A-2FAE-4930-B982-8AE340DAB7E1

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/sda1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 206848 2050047 1843200 900M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda3 2050048 2312191 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 2312192 722997247 720685056 343.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 934809600 976773119 41963520 20G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6 722997248 722999295 2048 1M BIOS boot
/dev/sda7 722999296 926652415 203653120 97.1G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8 926652416 934809599 8157184 3.9G Linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

Disk /dev/loop0: 2.6 GiB, 2775728128 bytes, 5421344 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Manual config of grub following instructions above, fails with multiple "no mount
point" errors and "command not found" when running update-grub

root@kali:~# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt

root@kali:~# mount -bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount: invalid option -- 'b'
Try 'mount --help' for more information.
root@kali:~# mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
root@kali:~# mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
root@kali:~# mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
root@kali:~# mount --bind /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /mnt/sys/firmware/efi/efivars
mount: /mnt/sys/firmware/efi/efivars: mount point does not exist.
root@kali:~# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
mount: /mnt/boot/efi: mount point does not exist.
root@kali:~# mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
mount: /mnt/boot/efi: mount point does not exist.
root@kali:~# mount --bind /run /mnt/hostrun
mount: /mnt/hostrun: mount point does not exist.