The last step (the "confirmation" step) of Ubuntu's installer has an advanced button (lower right, somewhere just above the "next" or "finish" or whatever it is). If you click on it, you can set which partition GRUB should install on.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arnaud Loos</b> <<a href="mailto:arnaud@arnaudloos.com">arnaud@arnaudloos.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">I originally went through the process of setting up my machine to dual boot ubuntu and vista (with bitlocker).</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">Vista
</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">'</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">s bootloader is installed to the MBR and configured with an entry which points to the right partition for ubuntu. I now find myself needing to reinstall ubun
</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">tu</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">,</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> and if I remember correctly it will try and install grub to the MBR
</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> by default</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">. What I need to know is if there is a switch or someplace during setup that I can tell the ubuntu setup process to install grub at the be
</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">ginning of its partition and not the MBR. Then presumably I won</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">'</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">
t need to change anything in Vista</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">'</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">s bootloader.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Thanks.</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Arnaud-</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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