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

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:07:54AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> There may be similar cases for embedded systems and some other
> virtualization/chrooted magic. Why don't prompt the user in a - as for
> me low priority - debconf template whether he wants to install the boot
> loader or not with defaults to yes?

Gosh.  You might almost think that there wasn't already provision for
this case in grub-pc's debconf interface ...

(When it asks you which devices you want to install GRUB to, select none
of them.  You will need to confirm this.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]