ubuntu 7.10 won't boot

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

Chris Gow writes: 

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>> 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.

Sorry, I missed a couple of your suggestions. 

> So you can log in as root,

Yes.  can you also log in as normal user? 

Yes.
> What happens if 
> you run startx? Does your X start up then? 

Yes, it did (after logging on as chris). When X came up there was err: 

The panel encountered a problem loading 'OAFIID: GNOME - 
FastUserSwitchApplet' Do you want to delete this from your configuration? 

I hit 'Delete'. I tried umounting the ubuntu CD and I got a message that I 
don't have sufficient privileges. I also tried to shut down and see that 
there is no Shut Dwon option - only the others: Switch user, Suspend, Lock 
Screen, Log Out and Hibernate.
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