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You could take a look at refind, if you're on a efi system. Refind is a boot manager that can either chainload other Bootmanagers, kernels as well as eny efi bootloader entries. Even if grub is borked. You can probably set it up on a usb stick or even find a rescue distro that uses refind. It's good as a failsafe if you can't get grub to work.
Agreed, I've been using refind for about a year now and it hasn't failed me.
I installed Windows on an isolated drive, connected another drive, installed Linux and refind.
running a quick refind-install in the terminal picked up the windows bootloader and all of the Linux kernels that I have installed.
Highly recommend this. It's magic.
Also recommend, refind has saved my dual boot machines more times than I can count