Ok well I got all the stuff for the server. Gigabyte board, AMD proc, half a gig of memory, two seagate 120gb sata drives and a highpoint rocketraid 1640 sata raid (pci). So I power the thing on and set in the bios to boot from scsi like it says in the manual and it continues on and lets me into the cards bios so I can create the arrays. All that good stuff. I boot my gentoo live cd and it finds the card and detects the drives and all is well. I have a successful install of gentoo but when it's time to reboot it get's past the bios and then sits there for like 10-15 seconds and doesn't boot. It eventually times out and tries to boot from the cd but even if I change the boot order (cd, floppy, hd vs. hd,cd,floppy etc) it still hangs for those 10-15 seconds. If I don't have a cd or floppy in the drive it will just sit there. When I first installed them it would give me a none bootable system disk error which was to be expected but now after the install it just sits there. My first install I created a raid 1 array and it wouldn't boot so I thougth maybe it didn't like the raid so I deleted the array and installed on a single disk with the same results. I don't think the OS is at fault here. It seems like a bios problem. Anybody got any input on this type of thing (getting hd to boot off of a third party controller and not built in)? Thanks.