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Re: Problem related to eCos


This question most properly belongs on ecos-discuss (Cc'd)

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 03:13, amit chaudhary wrote:
> Hi 
> i m trying to boot eCos as stand alone on my i386 pc
> target.
> I had build sources for RAM STARTUP & then using
> loaders to load ELF file (ELF file is generated by
> compiling my simple hello world program with eCos
> libraries) and then execute this ELF file.
> 
> Everytime i boot my machine with this,it restarts the
> machine.
> When i try this on some virtual machines it gives some
> monitor error.
> 
> Please tell me how i can boot my eCos kernel on i386
> pc target.

Either build your application using STARTUP_FLOPPY (then
copy it to a floppy and boot it from there), or run RedBoot
(again from floppy) on the target PC.  RedBoot can properly
load and execute a program which was built for STARTUP_RAM

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