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GRUB is confusing
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I'm pretty sure UEFI systems don't make use of a boot sector anymore. They look for the bootloader in the form of an .efi file in the ESP or EFI System Partition, of each sata drive (maybe other block devices too).
also, the disk it uses is not necessarily "/dev/sda". first because it can be on any of the disks, second because that's not a persistent ID but something that depends on detection order
firmware is a pretty common term for things like this (code on chip that manages low level startup)