Re: [ECOS] i386 boot problem

[Gonçalo Antunes <gmma at gmma dot net>]

Yes. I did set the startup type to be the floppy.
Any ideias about the problem?




----- 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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