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Honored ContributorYou didn't program the flash at 0x000000 yet. You can program the flash, so that will start after power-on without data blaster download/cable.
http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operating...flashprogrammer (http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operatingsystems/%c2%b5clinux/flashprogrammer) NOTE, you should not use jtag uart in this case, or it will hang until you run nios2-terminal. you should use serial uart instead. The nios2-download will load the zImage to (0x800000 + 0x500000), and start exec at this address, ie 0xd00000. The zImage will uncompress the linux kernel (gziped in zImage) to 0x800000. And start exec at 0x800000.
