Hello again. Finally had some time to look at this machine today. Thank you for your responses and time and I apologize for the lack of information in my OP. For starters I had Suse 12.1 running for a few months (I did a clean install of Suse 12.1 over my previous 11.4 system). I removed the operating system to install Debian (the PandaBoard I just ordered recommends Ubuntu or Debian so you can follow the tutorials easier). I’m unfamiliar with Debian and I could not get it to boot (may have been the same problem but I opted to attempt to get back to 12.1 rather than wrestle with Debian). I doubt its a hardware issue but it’s always a possibility. Here are the outputs from the commands you mentioned. It appears to be an issue with GRUB but I’m not quite sure.
df -hlT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs rootfs 7.6G 2.7G 5.0G 35% /
udev tmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
devtmpfs devtmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 1.7M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sr0 iso9660 674M 674M 0 100% /livecd
/dev/loop0 ext4 7.6G 2.7G 5.0G 35% /
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 760K 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 760K 3.9G 1% /var/run
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /media
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 760K 3.9G 1% /var/lock
cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 1953514584 sda
8 1 2103296 sda1
8 2 20972544 sda2
8 3 1930437632 sda3
7 0 7980032 loop0
cat /etc/fstab
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
/dev/root / defaults 1 1
mount
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=4016464k,nr_inodes=1004116,mode=755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sr0 on /livecd type iso9660 (ro,relatime)
clicfs on /read-only type fuse.clicfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
/read-only/fsdata.ext3 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=19,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
tmpfs on /media type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755)
tmpfs on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
none on /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint type vmblock (rw,relatime)
/sbin/fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa2b85101
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3907029167 1953514583+ ee GPT
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat: /boot/grub/menu.lst: No such file or directory
Finally, when I say I reinstalled something several times it doesn’t mean I followed the same procedure. Clean installs with ext3 instead of ext4, grub at mbr, grub at /, grub in both locations etc (sorry if I was unclear). I was hoping some some combination of settings would help.
