Comment # 6 on bug 909487 from Stanislav Brabec

On the first look it looks like a duplicate.

But is is strange, and probably it is not a duplicate. Both related problems
are fixed in 13.2:

- blkid continues probing after I/O error. It is fixed: patches from Hannes
Reinecke are already present in util-linux-2.25.1.

- If floppy, is not present, kernel was not responding on /dev/fd0 access
attempt. It should also be fixed:

commit 1d92189ae74433b439f87eb98516d5fe417da81e
Author: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 16:23:01 2014 +0100

    floppy: bail out in open() if drive is not responding to block0
    read (bnc#773058).


Additionally, blkid problem did not cause hang, jusr a ~10 minutes delay
(several hundreds of floppy access attempts).


To the reporter: Could you try to switch on the installation system to the
console (Ctrl+Alt+F2 or so), and try:
blkid /dev/fd0
blkid /dev/fd1
It should report error, in the worst case after few seconds.