diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..144b944bbe94fc3dbea111f1f8ca4a09860e2b32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+_*
+*.o
+*.d
+*.asm
+*.sym
+*.img
+vectors.S
+bootblock
+bootother
+bootother.out
+initcode
+initcode.out
+kernel
+mkfs
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 84c5cd0654bdfd9e371384a40fa788742fbe525a..6b63edaf0c01a53b2443c6df1fad8cd520d0cae9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ bootblock: bootasm.S bootmain.c
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -nostdinc -I. -c bootasm.S
 	$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -N -e start -Ttext 0x7C00 -o bootblock.o bootasm.o bootmain.o
 	$(OBJDUMP) -S bootblock.o > bootblock.asm
-	$(OBJCOPY) -S -O binary bootblock.o bootblock
+	$(OBJCOPY) -S -O binary -j .text bootblock.o bootblock
 	./sign.pl bootblock
 
 bootother: bootother.S