[ECOS] i386 boot problem

Gonçalo Antunes gmma@gmma.net
Mon Apr 4 14:11:00 GMT 2005


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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