HELP (please)

After sticking a CF card on, I get the following during boot:
Quote:
hda: , 30535MB w/1kB Cache, CHS=62041/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:10:01:2b
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [3892/255/63] hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initDrive(s) appear to be already built. Skipping.
Press return to continue anyway - anything else to start a shell.
show_message("Fixed temp.sensor")
Fixed temp.sensor, status=0xc0
and then.... nothing. The screen displays "Fixed temp.sensor" as expected, but nothing else happens. If I press any key, the hard drive is re-partitioned and formatted again - several hours later I'm back at square one again.

Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers,

N.