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You didn't say what kind of drive sda was, is it SATA?
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sda is SATA, sdb is IDE
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You didn't say what the mount points of sda[567] are.
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sda5 is /
sda6 is swap
sda7 is /home
I didn't create a partition for /boot. Sources I checked didn't list it as necessary and it wasn't mentioned in another installation thread I was talking in.
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mount /dev/sda5 /media/root
mount /dev/sda6 /media/root/boot
grub-install blah blah...
grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda
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I took these steps except I didn't mount /boot since I don't have a separate partition for it. Do I need to mount the /boot directory or something?
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Seems to me to indicate that you've put the Grub boot code for sda onto a high partition rather than in the MBR.
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Yes, this is certainly the case. I remember checking off MBR during install, but it must have put it in MBR of sdb instead of sda. As previously discussed, I tried to reinstall grub on sda with sdb disconnected, but I get the same error. I believe I'll try ken_yap's suggestion of installing grub to /dev/sda instead of any particular partition and see what that does.