Bug#631224: grub2 should *never* auto write MBR

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:35:30AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Please keep chroot-like environments in mind (e.g. lxc,
> Linux vserver, debootstrap, etc.).

We do.  Why do you think grub-pc.postinst goes to such effort to make it
possible to install the boot loader nowhere, while also trying to avoid
shooting users in the foot who just want a bootable system?

> Installing grub-pc due to some unexpected dependency chain or just by
> accident should not make your host system unbootable.

IME it does not.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]