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From: Pierre AUBERT <p.aubert@staubli.com>
To: Kapil Konde <kapilkk@yahoo.com>
Cc: Linuxppc-Embedded <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Bad Magic Number
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:33:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BBADB78.7ADE82CA@staubli.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: GDEHIPAFEMJDKNFDCIEBIEGECCAA.kapilkk@yahoo.com


Kapil Konde wrote:

> Hi all,
>         I am trying to boot linux on my custom mpc8xx card. I have ppcboot loaded
> and I am loading linux kernel image using tftp. When I say bootm it gives me
> error "Bad Magic Number".
> Can anybody please explain the error and suggest any solution for it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kapilk.

If you want to use the bootm command, you need to build your linux kernel with the
mkimage tool (this tool is included in the ppcboot package).

Regards

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-03  9:09 Bad Magic Number Kapil Konde
2001-10-03  9:33 ` Pierre AUBERT [this message]
2001-10-05  7:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
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2001-10-03  9:34 Mark Anderson

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