Note - I'm running maverick, and recently added the "proposed"
repository, which is why I'm getting Package: grub-pc
1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3.1 rather than ...5-ubuntu-3 which is the current
official release.

I left the dialog box choice "Continue without installing GRUB?"
unchecked, and it took me back to the "Configuring grub-pc" dialog.  I
again checked only /dev/sda, and clicked Forward, and again it
complained that I was choosing to not install GRUB.  Very confusing.  So
I checked the box, and was able to continue.

After the upgrade process finished (yeah - I left it in progress for
days while I got advice), I tried to find anything in the grub config
files that was being updated, but found nothing.  My /boot/grub/grub.cfg
file was updated at the beginning of the install process, due to the
installation of the new kernel Linux 2.6.35-29-generic.

Afterwards I did a "sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" from the command line
that asked some of the same questions, and it seemed to pay attention to
my answers this time.  And again nothing seems to have changed in the
configuration.  This time I saw no questions about having changed the
config files manually.

All rather confusing and scary.

If nothing else, the bug to be fixed is the need for a functioning
"back" button in the config dialogs.

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Title:
  grub-pc upgrade: can't back out of configuration, don't know how to
  proceed

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