[opensuse] grub doesnt boot my system anymore, caught in endless reboot loop


Hallo,

Hi,

I'm in serious trouble here, can't get grub to boot my box anymore.
Instead of showing the grub boot menu, it reboots.

The story so far:

because of the old 180gig seagate barracuda (scsi) dying, i got my box a new 147gig fujitsu
MAW3147NP (also scsi).

I shot down the box, connect the new disk as ID 1, fire up the rescue system from suse 10.0
installation media, and created a partition layout on the new disk, similar to what it was on
the old one (except for a few size adjustments). Formatted the new partitions with mkfs.xfs,
then used xfsdump |xfsrestore to get the data over to the new disk.

After shutting down, i disconnected the old disk, configured the new one to ID0, booted the
rescue system again, and chrooted into the installation on disk, and did a mount -a which
worked just fine, so the partition layout agrees with my old /etc/fstab.

Then, I fired up yast to write a boot sector to disk.
That worked without error messages.
Now, when i try to boot that box, all i get is a short message from grub flashing by which I
cant quite read because its gone too fast, and then the box does a reboot..

Any ideas what's wrong there?
one fact to consider for solving: I don't really need to use grub here, lilo is ok with me too.
another fact: when I boot the installation dvd, and go to "other -> start installed system" on
the yast screen where you choose between fresh install and upgrade, the box comes up just fine
(and after i installed the kernel rpm from the dvd, it even finds all needed modules and does
its job like its supposed to be, just with the old kernel).


mountpoints:
celebrimbor:/boot/grub # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 / xfs defaults 1 1
/dev/sda9 /export xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /tmp xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/sda6 /var/log xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/sda8 /var/spool xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs
noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs
noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

fdisk -l:
celebrimbor:/boot/grub # fdisk -l

Platte /dev/sda: 147.0 GByte, 147086327808 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 17882 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 Ã? 512 = 8225280 Bytes

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 609 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 610 17882 138745372+ 5 Erweiterte /dev/sda5 610
703 755023+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 704 766 506016 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 767 829 506016 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 830 1438 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 1439 17882 132086398+ 83 Linux

/boot/grub/device.map:
celebrimbor:/boot/grub # cat /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda

/boot/grub/menu.lst:
celebrimbor:/boot/grub # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Do Nov 30 23:29:24 CET 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda5
splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
floppy###
title Diskette
chainloader (fd0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 showopts ide=nodma apm=off
acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
2.6.13-15-default###
title 2.6.13-15-default
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-15-default root=/dev/sda1 selinux=0
resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.13-15-default
celebrimbor:/boot/grub #




bye,
MH

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