Trouble booting Arch on Pandaboard ES

[Skillet]

Hey all,

I am having a touch of trouble getting Arch to boot on my Pandaboard ES. I had Ubuntu working before but it was dreadful and I need Arch But I think that is a good indication that there is no problems with the SD card.

I have followed the instructions to the letter, and everything appeared to work regarding console output. I made sure to do everything as root, to copy the MLO file to the FAT partition as the first file and copy everything else later, to sync before unplugging the SD card, etc. but it doesn't boot. When I plug in the Pandaboard ES, only the one light comes on (both should light up) and I never get any output to the screen (not even blank, the screen just says "No input").

One thing I noticed is that the instructions say "FAT 16" but the script seems to be written to create a FAT 32 partition? It may not matter (or that may make no sense). But I thought I'd mention it.

Also, this is the output from mkimage:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
Image Name: boot.scr
Created: Sat Jul 21 15:38:45 2012
Image Type: ARM Linux Script (uncompressed)
Data Size: 161 Bytes = 0.16 kB = 0.00 MB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Contents:
Image 0: 153 Bytes = 0.15 kB = 0.00 MB
')

Is the Load Address and Entry Point supposed to be 0? That may be right, I'm just trying to troubleshoot.

Here is the output of my xmkcard.sh:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
./xmkcard.sh: line 1: #!: command not found
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 1.1681 s, 898 kB/s
DISK SIZE - 31914983424 bytes
CYLINDERS - 3880
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK

Disk /dev/sde: 3880 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
sfdisk: /dev/sde: unrecognized partition table type

sfdisk: No partitions found

Old situation:
New situation:
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 * 0+ 8 9- 72261 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sde2 9 3879 3871 31093807+ 83 Linux
/dev/sde3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sde4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...

If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
umount: /dev/sde1: not mounted
mkfs.vfat 3.0.12 (29 Oct 2011)
umount: /dev/sde2: not mounted
mke2fs 1.42.4 (12-June-2012)
Filesystem label=ALARM
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
1945888 inodes, 7773451 blocks
388672 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
238 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8176 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000

Allocating group tables: 0/238 1/238 2/238 3/238 4/238 5/238 6/238 7/238 8/238 9/238 10/238 11/238 12/238 13/238 14/238 15/238 16/238 17/238 18/238 19/238 20/238 21/238 22/238 23/238 24/238 25/238 26/238 27/238 28/238 29/238 30/238 31/238 32/238 33/238 34/238 35/238 36/238 37/238 38/238 39/238 40/238 41/238 42/238 43/238 44/238 45/238 46/238 47/238 48/238 49/238 50/238 51/238 52/238 53/238 54/238 55/238 56/238 57/238 58/238 59/238 60/238 61/238 62/238 63/238 64/238 65/238 66/238 67/238 68/238 69/238 70/238 71/238 72/238 73/238 74/238 75/238 76/238 77/238 78/238 79/238 80/238 81/238 82/238 83/238 84/238 85/238 86/238 87/238 88/238 89/238 90/238 91/238 92/238 93/238 94/238 95/238 96/238 97/238 98/238 99/238100/238101/238102/238103/238104/238105/238106/238107/238108/238109/238110/238111/238112/238113/238114/238115/238116/238117/238118/238119/238120/238121/238122/238123/238124/238125/238126/238127/238128/238129/238130/238131/238132/238133/238134/238135/238136/238137/238138/238139/238140/238141/238142/238143/238144/238145/238146/238147/238148/238149/238150/238151/238152/238153/238154/238155/238156/238157/238158/238159/238160/238161/238162/238163/238164/238165/238166/238167/238168/238169/238170/238171/238172/238173/238174/238175/238176/238177/238178/238179/238180/238181/238182/238183/238184/238185/238186/238187/238188/238189/238190/238191/238192/238193/238194/238195/238196/238197/238198/238199/238200/238201/238202/238203/238204/238205/238206/238207/238208/238209/238210/238211/238212/238213/238214/238215/238216/238217/238218/238219/238220/238221/238222/238223/238224/238225/238226/238227/238228/238229/238230/238231/238232/238233/238234/238235/238236/238237/238 done
Writing inode tables: 0/238 1/238 2/238 3/238 4/238 5/238 6/238 7/238 8/238 9/238 10/238 11/238 12/238 13/238 14/238 15/238 16/238 17/238 18/238 19/238 20/238 21/238 22/238 23/238 24/238 25/238 26/238 27/238 28/238 29/238 30/238 31/238 32/238 33/238 34/238 35/238 36/238 37/238 38/238 39/238 40/238 41/238 42/238 43/238 44/238 45/238 46/238 47/238 48/238 49/238 50/238 51/238 52/238 53/238 54/238 55/238 56/238 57/238 58/238 59/238 60/238 61/238 62/238 63/238 64/238 65/238 66/238 67/238 68/238 69/238 70/238 71/238 72/238 73/238 74/238 75/238 76/238 77/238 78/238 79/238 80/238 81/238 82/238 83/238 84/238 85/238 86/238 87/238 88/238 89/238 90/238 91/238 92/238 93/238 94/238 95/238 96/238 97/238 98/238 99/238100/238101/238102/238103/238104/238105/238106/238107/238108/238109/238110/238111/238112/238113/238114/238115/238116/238117/238118/238119/238120/238121/238122/238123/238124/238125/238126/238127/238128/238129/238130/238131/238132/238133/238134/238135/238136/238137/238138/238139/238140/238141/238142/238143/238144/238145/238146/238147/238148/238149/238150/238151/238152/238153/238154/238155/238156/238157/238158/238159/238160/238161/238162/238163/238164/238165/238166/238167/238168/238169/238170/238171/238172/238173/238174/238175/238176/238177/238178/238179/238180/238181/238182/238183/238184/238185/238186/238187/238188/238189/238190/238191/238192/238193/238194/238195/238196/238197/238198/238199/238200/238201/238202/238203/238204/238205/238206/238207/238208/238209/238210/238211/238212/238213/238214/238215/238216/238217/238218/238219/238220/238221/238222/238223/238224/238225/238226/238227/238228/238229/238230/238231/238232/238233/238234/238235/238236/238237/238 done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 0/238 1/238 2/238 3/238 4/238 5/238 6/238 7/238 8/238 9/238 10/238 11/238 12/238 13/238 14/238 15/238 16/238 17/238 18/238 19/238 20/238 21/238 22/238 23/238 24/238 25/238 26/238 27/238 28/238 29/238 30/238 31/238 32/238 33/238 34/238 35/238 36/238 37/238 38/238 39/238 40/238 41/238 42/238 43/238 44/238 45/238 46/238 47/238 48/238 49/238 50/238 51/238 52/238 53/238 54/238 55/238 56/238 57/238 58/238 59/238 60/238 61/238 62/238 63/238 64/238 65/238 66/238 67/238 68/238 69/238 70/238 71/238 72/238 73/238 74/238 75/238 76/238 77/238 78/238 79/238 80/238 81/238 82/238 83/238 84/238 85/238 86/238 87/238 88/238 89/238 90/238 91/238 92/238 93/238 94/238 95/238 96/238 97/238 98/238 99/238100/238101/238102/238103/238104/238105/238106/238107/238108/238109/238110/238111/238112/238113/238114/238115/238116/238117/238118/238119/238120/238121/238122/238123/238124/238125/238126/238127/238128/238129/238130/238131/238132/238133/238134/238135/238136/238137/238138/238139/238140/238141/238142/238143/238144/238145/238146/238147/238148/238149/238150/238151/238152/238153/238154/238155/238156/238157/238158/238159/238160/238161/238162/238163/238164/238165/238166/238167/238168/238169/238170/238171/238172/238173/238174/238175/238176/238177/238178/238179/238180/238181/238182/238183/238184/238185/238186/238187/238188/238189/238190/238191/238192/238193/238194/238195/238196/238197/238198/238199/238200/238201/238202/238203/238204/238205/238206/238207/238208/238209/238210/238211/238212/238213/238214/238215/238216/238217/238218/238219/238220/238221/238222/238223/238224/238225/238226/238227/238228/238229/238230/238231/238232/238233/238234/238235/238236/238237/238 done
')

Arch is the only distro for me and I really want to run it on my Pandaboard ES. Could I trouble someone to help me get it working? Thanks.

[WarheadsSE]

Do you have the ability to hook up a serial for some output? That would greatly help.

[Skillet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'D')o you have the ability to hook up a serial for some output? That would greatly help.

[Skillet]

Ah, it turns out that I had mismounted the partitions when I was copying files to them, and I followed all the directions again with my new knowledge of mount and it works perfectly Thanks again.