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On 22/02/2024 19:17, Grant Edwards wrote:
> However, the choice to install bootloaders in partitions instead of
> the MBR has been removed from most (all?) of the common installers.
> This forces me to jump through hoops when installing a new Linux
> distro:

File a bug!

If that's true, it basically borks any sort of dual boot, unusual disk 
layout, whatever.

Last time I installed SUSE, it trashed my boot totally because it didn't 
recognise my disk stack, failed to load necessary drivers, and worse 
trashed my gentoo boot too ...

Cue one big rescue job to get the system up and working again. At least 
it was only the boot that was trashed.

Cheers,
Wol