Hi,

Thanks for all the replies.

So, two weeks after ordering it, the PC arrives. I assembled the
hardware a few days ago and have been trying to get Debian running ever
since....

Firstly, I stand corrected. The Intel ICH7R chipset does not provide
hardware raid 0, so I have been experimenting with the Debian software
raid instead.

I now have three SATA drives installed, a spare 250 GB drive I had
laying around, plus the two 500 GB drives.

I installed Debian from DVD and partitioned the disks as follows:

First drive (250 GB)

50 GB /
50 GB /boot
50 GB /tmp
50 GB /var
50 GB /usr

On the two 500 GB drives, I created two 1 GB swap partitions at the
beginning of each disk, and configured the rest as raid 0, and used
this for /home (this is where the rips will live).

Now, when the system boots it sits there for a while "Begin: Waiting
for root file system...", and then displays an error message:

Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline 
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc modules ls /dev 
ALERT! does not exist. Dropping to a shell! 

BusyBox v1.1.3 (debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash) 
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. 
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Any ideas please ?


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