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Re: loading srec files thru redboot
- To: "vipin mehta" <vipin_mehta at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] loading srec files thru redboot
- From: Jesper Skov <jskov at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 13 Jul 2001 15:33:15 +0200
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <F154ixqDCZx4FR0rmTI00012c6d@hotmail.com>
>>>>> "vipin" == vipin mehta <vipin_mehta@hotmail.com> writes:
vipin> Hi, Using the prebuilt redboot image (redboot.UU) for e7t board
vipin> I've been successfully able to get the board boot from RedBoot
vipin> on startup. So far so good. I have a test application now which
vipin> i want to download onto the board using redboot. the
vipin> application image is in the 'srec' format (Motorola S-Record;
vipin> binary data in text format). i then execute
RedBoot> load example.srec
vipin> I get some Cs on the screen and after that some dots and after
vipin> that it just times out saying "'example.srec' could not be
vipin> loaded". what could i be missing ?
You need to start a download in the terminal program at this time.
In minicom that's done with C-a s
vipin> i get the image and i flashwrite it into the board. when i
vipin> reboot the board it throws some junk characters onto my
vipin> hyperterm configured at 38400 baud. I suspected some baudrate
vipin> problem and so I tried this with hyperterm running at all the
vipin> possible baud rates one by one. I cudn't succeed. what could be
vipin> the problem ?
You didn't invoke the 'plugin' command by any chance?
Jesper