[U-Boot-Users] Bad Magic Number - bootm

[Alan Casey]

>-- Original Message --
>From: Kaushik karandikar <kaushikkarandikar at yahoo.com>
>To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Bad Magic Number - bootm
>Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 03:57:23 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>      Hi All,
>             I am compiling uClinux for Phytec board with LPC2294 ARM7TDMI.
>      When I tried to use "bootm 0x80020000" (the linux   kernel image address
>in Flash).
>        It gave me the "Bad Magic Number".
>         
>      Could anyone tell me what was wrong ?I am new to this .
>    
>    Please Help me out.
>    
>    Thanks and Regards
>    Kaushik
>		
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Hi,

  Make sure that you have used the 'mkimage' tool to encapsulate
  a compressed or uncompressed Linux kernel image with header 
  information, checksum etc. See the README file in your U-Boot
  distribution for details. e.g. for ARM Integrator platforms:
  
  mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x7fc0 -e 0x8000
          -n 'ARM Linux 2.6.x' -d linux-2.6.x.bin linux-2.6.x.img

  Regards,
  Alan.