I thing the reasonable solution would be that installation process asks for confirmation on rewriting MBR at least when another *non-windows* system on disk partitions is detected... because this case means: 1) those another systems are probably linux/bsd/... systems and there is probably already grub/lilo/... installed which user may want to preserve 2) this also means that user is as far experienced as he/she prefer one more confirmation dialog over data loss.
Another solution would be display this confirmation dialog if and only if user choose manual disk partitioning... because of 2)... I really thing this is one of most critical bugs (if not the most critical one) in ubuntu.. could be fixed for feisty? -- Installation of GRUB to MBR should always be confirmed https://launchpad.net/bugs/47135 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
