Public bug reported:
At the end of the installation process (Step 7 of 7) of Jaunty Alpha 6,
when clicking on the Advanced button, the boot loader installation
option does not leave much of a choice: either you install the boot
loader on a device or you don't install it. I don't want to install the
boot loader on the MBR since this would overwrite the current boot
loader; in previous versions of ubuntu installations you were allowed to
specify the full grub device specification, e.g., you could do (hd0,4)
meaning to install the bootloader on the first sector of /dev/sda5...
This possibility is crucial if you have many linux distribution
installations and you use one single main grub installation on the MBR
which then "chainloads" to other grub installations (on the first
sectors of specific partitions).
So please, bring back this option!
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Jaunty alpha6 installer can only install on the MBR of a device
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346298
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