Ok so there I am, Fedora core 2, Abit NF7-S, and a PATA drive on the SATA controller using Abit’s included little dongle.
Installs, boots, runs.
However, noticed when switching to a text console that log messages were being generated in their thousands complaining about IRQs and SATA drivers.
Not wishing to mess with it, or having the time, and given I can install Fedora over NFS, I unplugged the drive from the SATA dongle and connected to normal IDE.
Quick boot into CMOS, setup drive as primary master.
Performed a boot using the Fedora Rescue CD to recover the drive.
Well, I would have done. But I forgot to put the rescue CD in the drive :doh:
Fedora booted from the drive, complained about swap, fixed swap, rebooted and carried on untroubled.
Linux :kisskiss: :cuddle: :worship: