Cloned working Arch image to another machine and it won't boot

Okay, I know I'm being a bit naughty, but I've cloned numerous Linux partition images to different machines and always managed to get them working before, with appropriate tweaking (grub, fstab, xorg.conf, etc). Linux is wonderful compared to Windows in this respect!
What I have got working: a fully updated Arch system, cloned from a Compaq Evo D500 system to a HP Vectra VL800 system.
What I haven't got working: cloning the above from the Compaq Evo D500 system to an ESys E320 Via 1.2GHz laptop system. I reinstalled GRUB (booting first from Arch Install CD, with 'arch root=/dev/sda2', then 'grub-install /dev/sda') and rebooted. The GRUB menu displays fine, and I select Arch; about 4 lines of messages appear very fast on the screen and then nothing - no hard disk activity and nothing whatsoever on the screen. No keypresses work (including Ctrl+Alt+Del) and I've got to power off.
However, when I boot from the Arch Install CD with 'arch root=/dev/sda2', it does take me into the normal desktop system, apparently working quite happily. So, it looks as though the Install CD kernel + the rest from my hard disk installation = working system! I tried reinstalling the kernel ('kernel26' package) and that worked fine, but nothing has changed when I boot from GRUB.
I would be most grateful if some kind person could indicate how I might avoid having to re-install Arch from scratch on this laptop. (I'd managed to clone Mepis 7 onto this machine successfully a few weeks ago.)
PS: I checked that GRUB's device.map was okay; also tried the boot parameters: noapic acpi=off pci=routeirq etc)
Last edited by ninian (2008-03-02 19:23:02)

@eerok,
Many thanks for the extra details.
Here's what I've found: everything works when I downgrade the kernel (and dependent packages) from 2.6.24 to 2.6.22. If I then upgrade the kernel, I get the same problems again. So it looks as though the new kernel doesn't like my laptop!
I also found this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9014
with some similar symptoms. But specifying 'ext3' on the MODULES= line in mkinitcpio.conf didn't change anything, so I think this must be a different problem.
Well, thanks for the help and at least I have a (relatively recent) working system!

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