I think that if Ubuntu is being installed in separate partitions from
existing Linux partitions, one reasonable approach would be to install
GRUB in the new partitions, and somehow inform the user that one should
set up chainloading from the original.

If some other OS's boot loader is in the MBR, then the situation gets
pretty murky! - The commonest though is Windows XP or some other NT-
family Windows, in which case it would be good to produce the
appropriate boot record file to be put in C:\ and executed from the
BOOT.INI file, and store that in a known place. This can be a bit
tricky, as the NTFS volume may not be writeable.

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