Installed a DVD burner on RHL9, and now the machine reboots

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

From: "Edward" <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au>
> Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > We have a server currently running RHL 9 (We're planning on upgrading to
> > RHEL 3.0, but that's another story).  Anyway, the SCSI tape drive is
dying
> > and since it's a relatively small server I figured I'd just use
mondoarchive
> > to back it up to dvd instead.
> >
> > I bought a LiteOn LDW-451S dvd burner and put it in.  I then modified
the
> > kernel line to include the scsi emulation, so now it reads:
> > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-31.9smp)
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-31.9smp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
> >         initrd /initrd-2.4.20-31.9smp.img
> >
> > I also installed dvdrecord-0.1.2-10 and dvd+rw-tools-5.11.4.6.4-1.  I
had
> > been using mondo 1.64 to back up to tape, but since it didn't recognize
dvd,
> > I upgraded to mondo 1.75.
> >
> > the machine rebooted when it got to the point of burning the image to
the
> > drive.  Then after reboot, I wanted to look at the dvd+rw-tools docs, so
I
> > started vnc and tried to get into /usr/share/docs from nautilus.  vnc
has
> > been rock-solid so far, but this time the machine rebooted again.
> >
> > I have no idea what to do from here.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Ben
>
> Overloading the power supply maybe?

I doubt it.  I pulled a CD-ROM and replaced it with the DVD burner.  This is
a server box with a big honkin power supply...

Ben