Bad Magic Number

Bad Magic Number

[Kapil Konde]

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.


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Re: Bad Magic Number

[Pierre AUBERT]

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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Re: Bad Magic Number

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <GDEHIPAFEMJDKNFDCIEBIEGECCAA.kapilkk@yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> 	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.

The image you are trying to boot is not a PPCBoot image, i. e. it was
not created using the "mkimage" tool that omes with PPCBoot. See  the
PPCBoot README file.

Wolfgang Denk

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RE: Bad Magic Number

[Mark Anderson]

Did you wrap the kernel image using the ppcboot
mkimage tool? If not, have a look at the ppcboot
documentation on mkimage it explains everything
you need to know.

Mark Anderson.
Advanced Communications Technologies

-----Original Message-----
From: Kapil Konde
To: Linuxppc-Embedded
Sent: 10/3/01 7:09 PM
Subject: Bad Magic Number


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.


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