DE0 downloading zImage fails

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Hi, 

I'm trying to get uClinux up and running on a DE0-nano board. My dev-environment is ubunutu 10.10. I downloaded all uClinux sources and compiled a zImage depending on  description in altera wiki "Install NIOS II Linux" (including downgrading of gcc to 4.2...)   After configuring the DE0 boerd with the *.sof I'm always failing in downloading the zImage to the board with the following message:   h-i686-mingw32\bin\nios2-elf-objcopy.exe:zimage: file format not recognized zimage.srec: unable to open input file rm: cannot remove 'zimage.srec': no such file or directory   Has anyone please a hint how to solve this problem ... ?  ----------- EDIT:  Meanwhile I found a reference project for the DE0-Nano. With this precompiled files .sof and zImage everythings working perfect. I can flash (from within nios2-command shell of windows! the linux version is not working) the sof and after that I'm downloading the zImage => the nios2-terminal shows me the booting linux and gives me the command shell...  But I still can't get my own compiled zImage to run :(  None of the zImages I made can't be extracted to srec-Format. What configuration option is here missing / Where can I configure the srec format in uClinux-dist?  -----------  EDIT 2: :) Finally I found the problem:  I transfered the zImage to my Windows (so that i can use the nio2-command-shell tools) using FTP and this destroyed my image. After switching the transfer mode AGAIN back to binary mode, the transfer is OK.  It's curious because I have changed the transfer mode to binary long time ago when I compiled some other uClinux projects with my machine...   thx