Comment # 2 on bug 954323 from Josef Reidinger

yes, it was already discussed in past. It is intention that bootloader allows
to install stage1 to more locations, so e.g. when something ( like different
bootloader overwrite MBR, still stage1 from partition can be used ( e.g. for
chainloading ).

Regarding active flag. It is set of various checks which in the end decide if
it is proposed to activate flag or not. So it is not that by default it is
proposed or not, but it depends on various conditions like if there is already
boot flag, if generic MBR is written or if we are on ppc64.

So for me it is more like feature, that need to be precise discussed what we
want to achieve and if it is OK, to drop some work-flows.