ubuntu 7.10 won't boot

[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

I can't boot my ubuntu 7.10 system. 

I'm getting this: 

Starting up...
Loading, please wait...
usplash: Setting mode 1280X1024 failed
usplash: Setting mode 1152X864 failed
usplash: Setting mode 1024X768 failed
usplash: Using mode 800X600
kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/md1) + md1(9,7)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/md1
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot... 

Ubuntu 7.10 cpc tty1 

I don't know if my (brand-new) hard drive is crashing or what. I went into 
the BIOS to see if there was any IRQ conflict with my emu1212m pci card (I 
haven't been able to initialize it under alsa) - I made a change and 
rebooted and got the above. So, I went innto the BIOS and restored default 
settings. I'm still getting the above error. At the prompt I logged in as 
root and tried to run init 5 - that did nothing - same for init 3. init 1 
got me to another screen but I don't know what to do in init 1 anyway. 

Any ideas? I'm emailing this through webmail on another machine. i guess you 
can tell from the above that I have set up RAID not that I would know how to 
restore from RAID but I thought the point of RAID is that if a hard drive 
goes the other will take over. 

Chris 

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