Hi . I have an install of fc5 on a normal ata note book hard drive, in an Ibase FWA7304 (it only has a serial port on vga). I have managed to get it to work once then it broke and I cant get it to work again.. this is as far as it boots .... Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19 200n8 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x16eb71] initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x1edff000, 0xe0f81 bytes] no matter how i reinstall the drive... I even used the hdd from my laptop with a full install of fc5 and it stops at exactly the same place ...... here are my configs /boot/grub/grub.conf default=0 #timeout=5 serial --unit=0 --speed=19200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial console #splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200n8 initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img /etc/inittab id:5:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 19200 vt102 /etc/sysconfig/init # color => new RH6.0 bootup # verbose => old-style bootup # anything else => new style bootup without ANSI colors or positioning BOOTUP=serial # Turn on graphical boot GRAPHICAL=yes # column to start "[ OK ]" label in RES_COL=60 # terminal sequence to move to that column. You could change this # to something like "tput hpa ${RES_COL}" if your terminal supports it MOVE_TO_COL="echo -en \\033[${RES_COL}G" # terminal sequence to set color to a 'success' color (currently: green) SETCOLOR_SUCCESS="echo -en \\033[0;32m" # terminal sequence to set color to a 'failure' color (currently: red) SETCOLOR_FAILURE="echo -en \\033[0;31m" # terminal sequence to set color to a 'warning' color (currently: yellow) SETCOLOR_WARNING="echo -en \\033[0;33m" # terminal sequence to reset to the default color. SETCOLOR_NORMAL="echo -en \\033[0;39m" # default kernel loglevel on boot (syslog will reset this) LOGLEVEL=3 # Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup... PROMPT=yes /etc/sysconfig/kudzu # Set to anything other than 'no' to force a 'safe' probe on startup. # 'safe' probe disables: # - serial port probing # - DDC monitor probing # - PS/2 probing SAFE=yes /etc/securetty console ttyS0 vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 tty9 tty10 tty11 /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. SELINUX=disabled # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted So what have I missed ? I used the following howto... <a href="http://bluequartz.org/~oda/docs/serial/index.html">http://bluequartz.org/~oda/docs/serial/index.html</a> and <a href="http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2004/06/fedora-core-2-based-soekris-system.html">http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2004/06/fedora-core-2-based-soekris-system.html</a> Many Thanks in advance -- Gregory Machin <a href="mailto:gregory.machin@gmail.com">gregory.machin@gmail.com</a> <a href="http://www.linuxpro.co.za">www.linuxpro.co.za</a>