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

[Edward]

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?

Regards,
Ed.