On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:53:07AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2015-05-25 05:24, John Whitmore wrote: > >On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 09:11:56PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >>On Sun, 24 May 2015 11:32:36 +0100, John Whitmore said: > >> > >>>$ ./mkknlimg ../../linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage 3.18.0-can+.img > >>>tail: +: invalid number of bytes > >>>* Is this a valid kernel? In pass-through mode. > >> > >>Looks like they try to use 'tail' to skip over something, but the + sign > >>in your uname -r gives it indigestion. Try building with a version name > >>that doesn't include a + sign, and complain to the maintainers of mkknlimg > >>that they've probably got a parameter quoting problem (most likely, there's > >>someplace a > >> > >>tail -this -that $foo > >> > >>needs to be > >> > >>tail -this -that "$foo" > > > >Thanks a million for that help. I'll do a bit of looking into the scripts. > > > Actually, unless you are using ancient firmware (from prior to the > first production revisions of the Model B), you should be able to > boot the zImage directly, just drop it in /boot and edit config.txt > to point to it. > >
Hey thanks for that. That really solves the problem thanks a million for the info. John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
