Bug 7698

Description of problem:
First, this issue does not occur using the Mageia 2 Dual Arch. CD-ROM.  It works fine.
Using Mageia 3 Alpha 1 Dual Arch. CD-ROM, the installation stalls and loops over and over in what looks like its trying to access a floppy drive.  This occurred on a Dell C600 laptop.  I tried attaching a Dell brand USB floppy drive to the system and trying again with the same results.  The longest I waited for it to time out of this loop was about 30 minutes, so to me it never timed out and had to be power cycled.  The last working screen you see of the install GUI is the License Agreement screen.  After choose Accept and you press Next in that screen the installer loads the hd controller driver and after that is when the loop starts.  At this point there is no text in the right pane of the install GUI but the mouse cursor still works.  When in this loop the various consoles showed:

F7 Console (Normal Install GUI) -  Normal left pane (one that doesn't change text but shows various stall steps progress).  Right pane blank.  After going to the other consoles, when you come back to this one the screen has no text at all.  The two "panes" are still a bit visible as the right side pane (the one that changes text as the install proceeds) is a really light blue/gray.  The left pane is white.  No text or graphic on the screen at all.

F4 Console - Loops over and over displaying the two lines below with the "changing number" (formatted in XXX.XXXXXX) changing for each additional time it is displayed:
<3>[ XXX.XXXXXX] end_request: I/O error dev fd0, sector 0
<3>[ XXX.XXXXXX] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0

F3 Console - Sitting at a blinking cursor with the last line displayed:
* running: mount -t ext4 UUID=6792d03c-8eeb-4c03-bb5a-6afbc5367d7c /tmp/inspect_tmp_dir -o ro

F2 Console - Sitting at a blinking cursor at the # prompt.  Line above:
DrakX v14.43

F1 Console - Sitting at a blinking cursor with the last line displayed:
Entering step 'Installation class' 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot Dell C600 laptop off Mageia-3-alpha1-dual-CD.
2.  Proceed with install by selecting language and accepting License Agreement.
3.  After pressing the Next button in the License Agreement install screen, small dialog box appears detailing which hd controller driver it is loading.
4.  After loading of hd controller driver, right install screen pane goes blank and system is in the above mentioned loop and must be power cycled.