So what's the bugtracker then for? I'd like to post this directly to the devs, not to discuss this with thousands of users where everyone has its own opinion. Sure, if the devs don't like the suggestion it's no problem for me,but posting into the mailing list doesn't have any effect.
To summarize I can give you two arguments against installing into the MBR: 1. Operating systems shouldn't touch the MBR, which usually just boots the active partition. The OSes should have their initialisation in their bootsectors. This is how all other OSes (including Windows) do it. This has the advantage that installing a new operating system doesn't destroy the initialisation code of the others. Windows for example just writes the standard MBR on installing. If you have an ubuntu installation with GRUB in the MBR you have to reinstall GRUB, if GRUB is in the bootsector all you have to do is setting the linux partition as "active". 2. It's difficult (at least for non-experienced users) to restore the standard MBR, for example when deleting linux. With GRUB in the bootsector the partition can be removed and all traces of the bootmanager are also gone. Apart from that it's completely the same for the users, so I can't understand why ubuntu installs into the MBR by default. -- Bootloader should be installed to the partition instead of the mbr https://launchpad.net/bugs/85816 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
