[ipxe-devel] Error : "invalid magic number"

Tejas Upadhyay upadhyay61 at gmail.com
Fri May 18 10:10:20 UTC 2012


Hello.bin is file generated by compiling by hello.c demo file, which is
having just one print saying "hello world".

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj at salstar.sk>wrote:

> What is hello.bin? In grub you should use lkrn ipxe files,
> as bin/ipxe.lkrn file.
>
>                        SAL
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:34:54AM +0000, Tejas wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have compiled hello.bin and I want to run it through grub menu or
> prompt. This
> > is what I am doing :
> > 1. putting hello.bin in /boot/ folder
> > 2. on grub prompt : grub -> set root=(hd0,1)
> >                     grub -> linux /boot/hello.bin
> > 3. When it tries to run linux /boot/hello.bin I get following error :
> >
> > "invalid magic number".
> >
> >
> > Can anybody suggest what can be wrong here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tejas
> >
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-- 
*Thanks,

Tejas Upadhyay
Embedded Software Engineer,
Sibridge Tehnologies Pvt. Ltd.,
Ahmedabad. (M) 9924938437*
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