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After much fiddling and lots of frustrating moments I finally sussed it out. I remembered that optical drives should only be set to Cable select. As soon as I swapped it to master I was able to boot up as normal. Fan Bloody Tastic!! Awww sooo happy to have my fedora core back :-) Darren -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Johnson Sent: 16 March 2007 15:14 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] Moved fc6 hard drive to new system On Friday 16 March 2007 14:58, Darren Foster wrote: > > Have a small problem in that I moved my old hard drive with Fedora Core 6 > on to my brand new Dell Optiplex 745. Hard drive is a IDE 250 gig. But the > machine is all SATA with no IDE option. So I purchased a rosewell IDE to > SATA Bridge adapter. This allows the hard drive to work fine. Only problem > is that I cant seem to get fedora core to work. > It doesn't seem to have support for your SATA controller. Most likely there is kernel support for it, but the driver isn't in your initrd (which is sane, since your old system didn't need it). This being the case, you need to boot your FC6 install CD in rescue mode, tell it to mount your installed system and give you a console, then manually re-create the initrd. It's also possible that there is no support for your SATA controller in FC6 (in which case you may need to re-install with a newer distro), or possibly no support in Linux at all (unlikely, I think). Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/723 - Release Date: 15/03/2007 11:27 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/723 - Release Date: 15/03/2007 11:27 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html