Hello I really need help with this !!! I was in a remote ssh session on a redhat 9 server, and accidentally I executed "init 1", then the connection closed and the server died. After that it didn't respond neither through ssh, nor http, nor telnet NOTHING !! Today, when I got physical access again to the server, it was power off because a electricity breakdown. I turn it on and it doesn't start. It fails "cannot create /.autofsck" and then "process did no exit clearly return 1 with signal 0" and I can't acces any console, and the system does not respond to any keyboard or mouse event !! Thanx in advance Bye David Size DOES matter - Lycos Email gives you 10MB storage mail.lycos.co.uk