Arria 10 development board using DS-5 in bare metal mode

I am attempting to debug a ARM application in “bare metal” mode. However loading the .axf file causes the ARM (Cortex-A9) processor on the Arria 10 development board to restart.

After building the .axf file in the DS-5 GUI, I load the ARM executable onto the Arria 10 development board using the DS-5 debug configurations. The Arria 10 development board is in “bare metal” mode at this time, i.e. U-Boot has run but linux has not booted.

As mentioned previously this resets the ARM processor and locks DS-5 from launching the semi-hosting/debugging environment properly.

Has anyone experienced this problem or something similar?