Comment 22 for bug 690926

Offering a choice of where or if to install a bootloader is something very minimal that an installer must do.

A lot of people are actually scared of using command line. This needs to be in the installer.

The big picture:

It may not be as simple as competing operating system installers, but keep in mind that this is GNU/Linux.

Simple or not, compatibility with multi-boot environments is a fundamental feature.

GNU/Linux was also designed with the ambition to run on just about any kind of hardware.

The little picture:

Personally, I am concerned about this bug since I install ubuntu on a RAID:0.

Theoretically this works (since Jaunty) but the past installers have all failed to install grub to /dev/mapper/raiddrive.

Usually, the installer just fails, but sometimes asks or tries to install to /dev/sda and then fails.

Unless I choose not to install grub and later install it manually from the livecd in a chroot, I don't get a bootable system.

Ideallly, raid installation will be fixed and my issue will be gone, but having the choice is still important.