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unable to restore grub

installed debian while installing grub2 on / partition (Not MBR). Now trying to install grub on MBR. I used supergrub2 to boot into my debian install. Then tried installing grub2 using

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[ sudo grub-install /dev/sda

which gave this error:

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/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup

what now? supergrub2 doesn't seem to have an option to restore the grub to the MBR...

I do not understand what you are trying to do. Is Debian the only operating system you have?

If so boot debian and run "sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt /dev/sdx"

Here is some documentation on grub2