On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 06:18:20 -0500
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i pointed out that the SSD drive is not being used as the boot
disk
so i wasn't sure what grub had to do with it
I believe you said it doesn't show up in the device list in the BIOS.
That is way before grub2 gets there, so I'd be highly suspicious
that grub2 was the problem.