grub2 on partition and not on MBR

[Tom H]

> does anybody tested Lucid beta 1 for what concern the GRUB installation not
> in the MBR?
> I see bug already opened by me.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/546466

For some (I assume technical) reason, it is not advised to install
grub2 except to the MBR. The last time that I tried (a few months ago)
using grub-install, I got a warning/error message. You can do so with
lower-level grub2 tools though (again, as of a few months ago; I have
not tried recently).