Woop woop, got the damn laptop booting from the new NVMe SSD.
Turns out GRUB was actually loading.. from somewhere... but it got screwed up somehow, so I only got the grun cmd line.
After figuring out:
- the new SSD was actually visible to GRUB (EVEN if the BIOS was not showing it)
- I can actually boot manually from there into the new install
I was able to install and use the Boot-Repair tool to get the damn thing booting normally again.
Still something hinky - like it boots twice(?), but it's working!
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/
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