Re: RaspberryPi "is this a real kernel?"

[John Whitmore]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 09:11:56PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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.


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