Ok, been doing some thinking. There's some conflicting items.

1. The CD install actually recognizes the full size of the disk. (!)
2. The boot partition is in the >128G section of the HDD.
3. The installed HDD won't boot.

Is it possible that the kernel on the install cds (I tried 1.02 and 1.10) is newer than the one on the MB in RAM? Does the install CD even boot a kernel as part of the install process?

I could try and take the <128G drive, and manually create the partitions and copy everything on the larger drive.

What do you guys think?

Would having the a line level converter on the debug port do me any good here?