https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1338





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-02-11 06:00 -------
I use IBM Boot Manager. When I want Linux, IBM BM loads Grub from /dev/xdx#. I
never need LILO, and I never need anything written to the MBR on the boot disk
without explicitly choosing for that to happen. No installer should ever write
anything to the MBR unless it is very sure it is necessary, which is not
particularly likely on a system with lots of partitions and active partition(s)
that are not Linux native types.



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Madnrake 9.1 Beta 3

During installation the bootloader is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda WITHOUT 
confirmation, overwriting the installed bootloader (in my case; Windows XP). 
The user is not able to prevent this, loosing the original bootloader in the 
process. The bootloader should, like in prevous versions, always offer the 
possibility to install on the boot partition (/dev/hda[number]).

My HDD partitioning scheme on /dev/hda

/dev/hda1 - WInXP NTFS
/dev/hda5 - Mdk 9.1 Ext3
/dev/hda6 - Linux swap

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