diff --git a/prepare-env b/prepare-env
index 93ea336..ce21f55 100644
--- a/prepare-env
+++ b/prepare-env
@@ -8,5 +8,3 @@ export top root nprocs mirror
 
 PATH=$top/cross/bin:$PATH
 export PATH
-
-mkdir -p $root
diff --git a/prepare-root b/prepare-root
index b6d3079..54f6d3d 100644
--- a/prepare-root
+++ b/prepare-root
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+mkdir -p $root
 cd $root
 mkdir -p boot bin dev devel etc home proc root share sys tmp var
 mkdir -p share/doc share/man var/empty var/log var/run
diff --git a/stage0 b/stage0
index 4ae59b3..6edaeb3 100755
--- a/stage0
+++ b/stage0
@@ -5,12 +5,18 @@
 
 set -e -x
 
-rm -rf root cross morpheus.log
 . ./prepare-env
-. ./prepare-root
 
+if [ $(uname -m) != $arch ]; then
+	echo You need an $arch host to build morpheus 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+rm -rf root cross morpheus.log
+. ./prepare-root
 mkdir -p src cross
 
+# Build musl-gcc
 ./build cross-scripts/musl
 
 installed_deps=