Manual Partitioning and LVM, Re: Puzzled

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 15:36:29 -0500,
   Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> wrote:
>The problem turned out to be an "old" mobo with an enabled floppy 
>interface with nothing attached.  Disable the interface in the BIOS 
>and things work.  However, that should not have hung up the install.

This issue sounds familiar. There have been discussions about whether the 
floppy driver should be loaded by default, because with some BIOS' booting 
can take several minutes to determine that there really isn't an attached 
floppy drive.

Disabling the floppy controller in the BIOS when that aren't any floppy 
drives attached to it helps in many cases.