On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Dan Kaspi wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for your answer and the link; it was really a very > interesting lesson.
[.. snip ..] > So I ran dd like thus (I am not sure that I used the dd correctly as > I don't use it frequently): > > First,I used skip=11 for 1 sector of boot sector and 10 of setup > code , as the od shows. > > dd bs=512 skip=11 if=bzImage of=kernel > > and : > > file kernel > gives: > > kernel: data > since it's not an ELF file,I ran strings: this is not ok - it sohuld have been a gzip file. > but running strings kernel | egrep memcpy > gives nothing. ofcourse - you need to uncompress it first. did you try the second thing i wrote there (copied from the HOWTO i mentioned) - i.e. to scan for the signature of gzip, extracting that data, gunzipping it and then running 'strings'? -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
