Public bug reported:
During installation of Ubuntu 16.04.2 desktop amd64 to the hard drive,
the Install window said this in the fourth step: "This computer
currently has no detected operating systems." There was indeed an OS
already on the HDD; I had used it only a few hours earlier. It was
Fedora 26. Therefore, the message misinformed the user. I don't know if
the cause was a difference in filesystems at the level of platter sector
formatting. Nonetheless, it should warn the user that there might be an
OS or data even though the Ubuntu installation can't see it. That would
give the user a chance to remember to back up the data or to manually
reconfigure the HDD to keep the old OS when allowed.
I have cold-rebooted multiple times before reporting this, so I don't
have the logs you prefer. Also, a search does not produce System or
lsb_release -rd and a CLI terminal tells me that no LSB modules are
available.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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installer software didn't see old OS though Fedora 26 was there
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