Installing on EeePC 900A hangs at sd_mod.ko

[redfloyd]

I've got an EeePC 900A:

* 900MHz Celeron
* 2GB RAM
* 32GB PATA SSD
* i915 Graphics.

Mageia 1 is installed on it, and it runs fine. With the EOL, I thought I'd try Mageia 2.

The Mageia LiveCD failed to boot, so I thought I'd try the Free DVD (i586). The installation hangs. Switching to the command prompt, it appears that it's hung on an "insmod /tmp/sd_mod.ko". This process is unkillable, even with kill -9.

Any suggestions?

[djennings]

How are you managing to install from DVD on the eee 900a ?
I thought that model did not have a DVD drive.
If you are trying to use unetbootin then that explains your difficulty. Unetbootin does not work with Mageia. If you want to put the DVD image on a flash drive you must use mandriva-seed as described in the wiki.

I have successfully installed Mageia 2 on an eee 700 which is the same thing as the 900a, but with an even worse CPU using a network install.
To do a network install 'dd' the all.img onto a flash drive as described in the Mageia installation instructions on the wiki.

[doktor5000]

How are you managing to install from DVD on the eee 900a ? I thought that model did not have a DVD drive.

Maybe an external DVD drive? not so uncommon with netbooks
But in either case, sounds like a damaged install medium, either bad burn, or via unetbootin or friends as you mentioned.
So different cause, same bad result