Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Taking the defaults w/o any changes, I proceed and completed the installation. On reboot, GRUB fails to find the drive.
Before you rebooted, you should have been able to switch to a shell to examine the installed system. If you can mount that drive, you should. Otherwise, get to the shell to check the contents of /boot/grub/device.map. What's in there?
What's the full text of grub's error?