Here is where I am now. I have removed the RAID5 array and now I have a single SATA 500GB drive. Did a fresh install (8.04 64 bit) and everything went fine. Only 3 clients boot up. The rest get no DHCP or no proxyDHCP offered. Trying to ssh to the server from remote takes forever and then the connection breaks. Trying to ssh from the console does takes forever again but it logs in. Does anyone have any idea what it could be? These clients and this server have been running for the past 6 months without a hich. I run fsck on both disks and everything is fine. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Nicolas Roussi <<a href="mailto:nroussi@gmail.com">nroussi@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks for the reply Jordan. But I should change the subject to "server crapped out" ;). I had the OS installed on a 3ware raid 5 and the array was fine. I rebooted the server many times and it run FSCK by itself with no errors. I formatted the drive and created a RAID0 array to install on. Everything went fine until it tried to install grub. It failed for GRUB so I selected LILO to be installed instead. While it boots up, it stops at the command line saying this "(initramfs)". I dont know what that means. I am thinking of removing the raid card alltogether. -- Nicolas Roussi </blockquote></div> -- Nicolas Roussi