I just installed Mepis 8.o.15 on my American Megatrends mainboard running an AMD 1.67 and two gig of PC2100 and everytime I boot I get "SRST Failure error=-16" twice before it goes on and boots. Is there a fix?

That's a new one for me, and not a lot that looks related on Google. However, this one thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964792
has two posters who claim that moving their boot hard-drive from secondary to primary (or from slave to master location) solved the issue.

I don't know if that'll work for you, but would be worth a shot - open up your machine and see if your boot hard drive is the primary master; if not, make it so.

By the way, how many hard disks have you got in the machine, and how many (and which) operating systems? Is windows in there too? If so, you might want to tell us what's installed where, and/or wait for a second or third opinion, before moving hard drives around, as it may well lead to Windows or Linux or both not booting.

Okay, here's the long story. I had a dual core AMD k8m800 and because I have final stage MS I dropped my computer as I was installing a new device, killing the Mobo. I installed a new triple core MSI K9N6PGM2 with a triple core AMD Phenom black. I removed three extra hard drives and now run one 320gig ide on Cable Select and it hit me as I'm typing, that is the problem, as you suggested.

I'll shut this down later today and change that without the floor crash.

I opened the unit and found my only IDE device was one of my CD Writers. I changed it from CS to Master but on starting I received a new message, Grub loading, No module name found, press any key to continue. On checking I found my 320gig SATA Drive unplugged. On plugging it in the same message but after pressing Space it boots.

Does anyone have an idea? If I find one on Google I will report back.

this is a long shot but I could be wrong. I hope some one can chime in the SRST is a device I believe csico type of internet device. Check your bios and make sure it is not set to boot from lan. this will ask it to seek this device and try to boot from a lan device.

Thanks anyway but as I reported above I have gotten rid of that error and now have a new error. The solution I found in the Ubuntu Forums was to reinstall the grub from the running installation but this did not work. I'll try again later.