Hi Marcel,

----------

> Well, I have four (4) disks at target 0, 1, 2, 3 & 4; 

These are five ;-))

> all seen by the system. I have 136MB of RAM in the following order:
> 8MB, 32MB; original when I first got the 5000/240. Robbed 3 scraped
> machines of their (32MB each) memory as the got scraped and added
> them to this 5000/240. This system was working before shutdown; but
> the disk got messed up. So, I have memory in this order:
> 8MB, 32MB,  8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB, 8MB.
> Atotal of 136MB.

A shot in the dark ....

I would never mix memory like this. At least i would check if you can boot
with the one 32 MByte module. (is enough anyway). Then if you really want
to use all memory you have, try 32,8,8,8,8,8....

cheers,
emanuel