Now this machine has good SIMMs (never any crash, and always
in active use), so this means a kernel bug. I'll cc to the kernel list.
I have now seen this machine crash 3 times during a RedHat 5.0 install,
and at least twice this was a kernel bug. Maybe 2.0.31 is no good
(on my hardware). The third time things ended in an infinite chain
scsi: aborting command due to timeout - resetting - Sent BUS DEVICE RESET -
Sending DID RESET
(repeated hundreds of times).
[Such a nonsense: if fifty resets do not help, the fifty-first one
will be no good either. Resetting the SCSI bus (for Adaptec 1542CF)
has never helped, and has always led to a panic shortly afterwards.
I vaguely recall some correspondence about this, and hoped that it
had been fixed, but it has not been fixed in 2.0.31.]
So, so far I do not succeed in installing Redhat 5.0.
The CD reader, disk, and SCSI adapter are in reasonable shape;
for example, a SuSE install a week or so ago went flawlessly.
Apparently the Redhat access pattern triggers a kernel bug.
(32MB memory, 100MB swap, installing from SCSI CD-ROM onto IDE disk)
Andries
cc: lnz, linux-kernel
[PS - 2.0.31 is otherwise just fine on my hardware - I've used
this kernel the past 6 weeks without any problems - only this
install fails.]