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