[U-Boot-Users] uImage wrapper removal?

Marc Singer elf at buici.com
Fri Aug 15 08:05:06 CEST 2003


Something along the lines of this

  dd if=uImage of=zImage bs=64 skip=1

The header is the first 64 bytes.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:34:57PM -0700, Tom Guilliams wrote:
> Does anyone know if there's a utility to remove the U-Boot wrapper from 
> a uImage  (gzipped kernel, etc)?  I'm creating a single uImage with 
> kernel and ramdisk and I need to extract the kernel, replace the ramdisk 
> and put it all back together after my Linux kernel has booted.  I 
> believe objcopy will allow me to extract the kernel from kernel/ramdisk 
> ELF image but that's off-topic.
> 
> Just checking to see if there's something already out there of if this 
> has been discussed before.




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