[Pgubook-readers] exit program segmentation fault

[Richard Wright]

Still cannot get past what is wrong with the exit program:

#as
.section .data
.section .text
.globl _start
_start:
movl $1, %eax
movl $0, %ebx
int $0x80

as exit.s -o exit.o
#ld exit.o -o exit
"Cannot find entry symbol _start;" (Try line 4!)
#./exit
"segmentation fault"

I have tried altering the spaces and indentations. The same error message 
keeps coming up. I read a thread where someone else had a similar problem on 
linuxassembly.org. He solved it by changing from capitals to lower case. 
Mine is written in lower case anyway, but just to be sure I tried doing it 
with capitals and again in lower case. Still got the same response. I have 
experimented by putting the last two commands either in the shell or in the 
assembler. That just confuses it as to where the exit.s file is. Since the 
error message was returning _start with a semi colon I tried entering it in 
with a semi colon. Still the same response. I wondered about the kernal 
command $0x80. I'm using the letter x, but I wonder if it should be the 
multiplication symbol, but if that were the case it should be $0*80 on my 
computer as I'm sure it is on anyone elses machine. Tried it anyway, still 
no luck. After entering

echo $?

it responded

139
I have re-read the chapter over and over and I can't think what's wrong. I'm 
entering it exactly as it's written.

any help will be greatly appreciated.

Rick