On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 14:22, Kevin wrote:
> The dd process runs for about 15 minutes or so then I get a kernel oops

Apologies for replying to my own post, but dd was successful after
rebooting to runlevel 1 and killing all possible userland processes. 
Currently, `ps -aux` shows /bin/sh as the only non-kernel process.

Not sure if this is just a fluke, but I doubt it since it failed on four
consecutive attempts before this success.  Off to chase root cause now. 
;-)  I wonder what's in /var/log/messages?

...Kevin