I have been without my player now for almost two days so i have to take active messures to figure out what's wrong with my baby.
I hooked her up to serial (thanks to the guys that mantain the FAQ) and got the following errors. I am sorta new to linux but i know smoethings not right here.

Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 206f6972 'rio '
Logo type is 1
empeg display initialised.
empeg dspaudio driver initialized
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision 80
empeg infra-red support initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005c80).
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
Probing primary interface...
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x0049
smc_init couldn't find card
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: Cannot open root device 03:05
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

either i am being paranoid or it's reading something from my drive
and quite frankly if the kernel is paniced im wiggin out as well
Whitey

yup contact david at customer support.. exact same problem i had.. dont worrie.. your babys fine

thanks all sorts or freaked out

It's not reading from your drive(s). It doesn't even see it (them).

-ml