Installing Ubuntu without GRUB

[Brendan Perrine]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 13:46:51 -0600
"Glenn / Lenny" <gervin at cableone.net> wrote:

> Hi Again,
> I have been researching this concern, and it seems to me that I came up with an idea that might work.
> I just don't recall the installation steps to know for sure if I will get my option to do this step.
> I suspect that my Windows partition is going to be /dev/sda1 and the empty partition will be /dev/sda2.
> Do we get the option of which partition to put GRUB onto?
> If so, I suspect that if I can put GRUB onto the Linux partition, that I will only be presented with GRUB when I down arrow to the second partition that my BIOS offers, and having GRUB there is no big deal.
> Any thoughts?
> Glenn

This may limit your options if say you forget your administrative passwords as many guides suggest using grub to boot into rescue mode for that for example http://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrative-password

Grub also allows you to boot to sometimes an older kernel. I don't know if your bios has this fucntionality. 

IF you are using the desktop installer you if you select something else in the installation process it will allow to chose where to install grub as well as many more advanced options. However you may need to know more about filesystems as some like xfs or btrfs are not likely to have been tested by the people who wrote your bios.  I would likely try to stay with ext4 filesystem for doing this. As some other will likely be not tested and could posibly have problems. 
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Brendan Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com>