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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Nios doesn't boot using custom bootloader

Hi, I have implemented the remote_update function on my custom board and it works for HW images. Now I am trying to boot nios images from non standard offset but it does not work :-/. I ...
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12 years ago

It works !!!

I had 2 problems:

- I was using an onchip ROM instead of RAM to store the bootloader in SOPC

- Then I have seen after reading back EPCS content that Nios binary file must be written without any byte modification unlike RBF files.

So I have modified the ROM to RAM and the way I write nios file on EPCS and now everything is working.

Now Nios can boot from a custom offset in EPCS and I can update binary file in EPCS !!

Thanks for support.