I can confirm that installing from CD to an external USB drive/stick still overwrites the MBR of the internal drive on Lucid Beta2.
Possibly related reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/45989 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/46520 -- [karmic] grub re-writes boot sector on wrong drive on fresh install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414996 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs