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Re: i386 boot problem


Got it!

Thank you very much, Gary!


Gonçalo Antunes.



----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Thomas" <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: "Gonçalo Antunes" <gmma@gmma.net>
Cc: "eCos Discussion" <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] i386 boot problem



On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:01 +0100, Gonçalo Antunes wrote:
Please discard my last email...

My answer is: "I setup on the BIOS of the pc that the startup will be the
floppy disk".
Is there any other configuration to be done on eCos configtool about that?

Yes, you need to tell it that your HAL STARTUP type is FLOPPY (CYG_HAL_STARTUP)


Thanks.




----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Thomas" <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: "Goncalo Antunes" <gmma@gmma.net>
Cc: "eCos Discussion" <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] i386 boot problem



> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:48 +0100, Goncalo Antunes wrote:
>> hi!
>>
>> I'm working on a simple eCos application that will run on a standard >> i386
>> pc.
>> I configured the eCos installation with the "i386PC target" template >> and
>> built it.
>>
>> I wrote a simple hello world program, compiled it ok and then make the
>>
>> i386-elf-objcopy -O binary hello hello.bin
>>
>> and then:
>>
>> dd conv=sync if=hello.bin of=/dev/fd0
>>
>> for it to run booting from the floppy disk...
>>
>> but there is error when booting from the disk....:
>>
>> "Error 13: Invalid or unsuportted executable format".
>>
>> I formatted the floppy with the fdformat command before I used it...
>
> Did you set the startup type to be FLOPPY?
>
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