weedeater64
January 13th, 2011, 06:02 PM
I have a Debian box, with free space for playing with other distro's.
I wanted to give the 10.10 Ubuntu a whirl, so I got the desktop .iso
and installed it, I didn't pay much attention and just let Ubuntu do it's thing.
Easy enough, but I later decided that I did not like having Ubuntu take over the boot process, also I want to continue using grub.97
So I've managed to get Debian back in control, gotten rid of grub2 (I think/hope) and wiped the Ubuntu..
I want to reinstall Ubuntu to another partition, but I do not want Ubuntu to install a boot loader or mess with the MBR...
Seems to me, there should be a provision to NOT have a boot loader installed. This is linux, right????
Anyway, I saw somewhere that when you get to the drive space allocation section, you can choose to have the boot loader installed to any drive, ie.. a usb stick or whatever...
Can anyone verify this, will that work??
I wanted to give the 10.10 Ubuntu a whirl, so I got the desktop .iso
and installed it, I didn't pay much attention and just let Ubuntu do it's thing.
Easy enough, but I later decided that I did not like having Ubuntu take over the boot process, also I want to continue using grub.97
So I've managed to get Debian back in control, gotten rid of grub2 (I think/hope) and wiped the Ubuntu..
I want to reinstall Ubuntu to another partition, but I do not want Ubuntu to install a boot loader or mess with the MBR...
Seems to me, there should be a provision to NOT have a boot loader installed. This is linux, right????
Anyway, I saw somewhere that when you get to the drive space allocation section, you can choose to have the boot loader installed to any drive, ie.. a usb stick or whatever...
Can anyone verify this, will that work??