Automatic GRUB installation only if GRUB isn't already installed

[Wenzhuo Zhang]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:08:00PM +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
>> Besides, Microsoft is doing the same and I don't think anybody likes 
>> that ;o)
> 
> They do this for the same reason: most users don't know or care what a boot
> loader is, and would be confused by the question.
> 
> The solution that Colin and I agreed on is to provide an advanced options
> button at an appropriate place in the installer to allow the user to change
> this behaviour.

That will be nice! Another well-thought idea is to backup the MBR 
somewhere before overwriting it. Two versions of the MBR can be backed 
up: the original version before installing Ubuntu, and the version after
editing the partition.

Wenzhuo