Fedora :: Kernel Fails To Boot After A Dd Copy Of Sda To Sdb?

As the post title says I have attempted to move my FC11 from a 120 gig ide drive to a 250 gig sata drive. I have tried all of the following with the same result listed below: Basic setup is as folows:

old hdd /dev/sda1 (boot) /dev/sda2(swap) /dev/sda3 (/)

attempt 1- boot fc11 live cd with old drive detected as sda and nwe drive detected as sdb.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512

attempt 2 - boot into fc11 live cd fdisk remove old partitionon /dev/sdb and create exact copy of partition table on /dev/sda on /dev/sdb - mark /sdb1 as bootable and copy /dev/sda1 + /dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb3

dd if=/dev/sda* of=/dev/sdb* bs=512 (* denotes 1 or 3 respectively)

attempt 3 boot linux rescue cd based on debian

run gparted to remove old partitions on /dev/sdb
use gparted to copy partitions from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb

All of the above result in the following (as best as I can describe it)

system self checks OK
system loads GRUB menu -OK
system appears to load kernel and then hangs after outputting device information regarding my USB keyboard and mouse.

Is there some magic that I am missing? system.map perhaps? Additonal info: grub.conf looks like:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that

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