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On 14.08.2015 19:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> Certainly Debian by default installs grub to the MBR (aka the disk),
> not to the partition.  I would be surprised if any other distribution
> does it differently.
>

openSUSE suggests partition by default. It makes sense for dual boot 
with Windows as it allows easy switch between them (Windows gets rather 
upset during updates installation when boot configuration changes).