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Re: eCos booting problem


On Wednesday 06 November 2002 04:19, Amit Chaudhary wrote:
>  The output generated was a.out in ELF format.
>
>  I was using one kind of Boot Loader which can load ELF file & execute
>
>  it. but pc is not booting , everytime my pc got restarted.
>
>
>
>  Tell me how can I boot eCos kernel and what kind of loaders i have to
>
>  use. I want to build a image of kernel which can be booted stand alone
>
>  on pc target.

Your boot loader should switch to protected mode just like the the eCos or
RedBoot for the PC does, that is the GDT and IDT and segment registers must be 
setup the same way. Then it should jump to 0x108000.

Iztok


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