Mint 11 Installer - Missing option to "Do not overwrite mbr"

Bug #783895 reported by PeggySue
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Bug Description

With the Mint 11 installer on the 'Allocate Drive Space' screen, the 'Device for Bootloader Installation' selection does not include a Null option. I.e. It insists on overwriting the Master Boot Record.

With a multiboot system it is a good idea to have the mbr point to one known system not just the last system installed, which changes or disappears. Debian allows you to generate a grub.cfg in /boot/grub without over-writing the mbr but this is missing in Mint 11.

Not urgent as you can write the mbr to a partition.

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