no option to specify where to install boot record

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start by tracing the installer's boot-record handling and how it chooses the installation target. Define how a user should select where the boot record is written, then verify that installing without replacing the master boot record still allows other operating systems to boot.

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Description

It appears that there is no way to point where to install 'boot record', after installation I wasn't able to boot other OSes
overwrote master boot record

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