First of all BladeRaptor,

Nice system!

Actually, I am not quite sure the resolve, but, the only thing I can think of, considering that the message seems to stem around the HDD's not being ready, at the point of them needing them to be, is...

Do you have Power Management enabled in your BIOS ? [ I am seriously grasping for straws here. ]

I know when my system boots, the hard drive lights stay on almost all the way through my memory check counting. Even though I have disabled the Power Management within my BIOS settings. During boot, I can here the drives spinning up to speed, and when I shut down Knoppix, after pressing the [return] at the Halted prompt, I can here the drives spin down as well.

I hope this is some help, or someone else here can give more answers or ideas - sorry that this is all I can offer

Cuddles