Its a Novell OES box on a Dell PowerEdge 2650.

After I do the install of the packages and its doing its initial boot, the server stops to do a fsck.ext3 on '/dev/shm/root'. it gets about halfway thru them bombs you. it then looks like it lists quite a few verbose errors but i cant read them because they scroll through to quickly.

There is nothing in dmesg about this and the /var directory is completely empty.

After it bombs out is drops me into what looks like a maintenence mode of some kind.

Has anyone seen this? Any advice? And what exactly is the purpose of /dev/shm/root?

thanks,
ryan