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RE: ERROR: invalid header ...




On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Ken Yap wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Martin Joachim Wolf wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, James Kim(Jin-Soo) wrote:
> > 
> > > Have you made bootImage by mknbi tool?
...
> > bootImage-file is about 360 byte in size ...
...
> The bootimage cannot be 360 bytes if it's legal. It most likely contains the
> error message from mknbi or something. Try catting it.

Rather than "cat", try "strings". A very useful utility for peering into
binary files to get some idea what they are.

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