On 06/06/23 07:59 (GMT-0400) paul marwick apparently typed:

> I wish that was true. Trouble is, Ubuntu does get it right, for the
> great majority of users. It will reliably detect an existing Windows
> installation and will then prompt the user for the location of the boot
> loader. The problem is that OS/2 is now such a minority option that the
> Ubuntu installer fails to detect it, assumes that it is the only
> operating system on the machine and simply overwites the MBR with the
> Grub code. For most users coming from Windows, that is just fine...

Any eCS user installing Linux is asking for trouble by not choosing
expert mode during installation. I've only ever installed Unbuntu using
expert mode, and have never managed to have the Ubuntu installer mangle
my ability to boot eCS yet. Maybe this is why you didn't get the
response you wanted from the developers.

In fact, the only Linux distro I couldn't make do what I want was
Linspire, which apparently has no expert mode for installation. Of
course, I always do all my partitioning before installing Linux, and
Linspire would have none of that either, insisting on handling the HD
its way only. :-p
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