[syslinux] Invalid or corrupt kernel image

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Mon Sep 13 10:17:16 PDT 2010


Op 20100909 om 09:13 schreef Heinz Haderer:
> --- Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> schrieb am Do, 9.9.2010:
> >
> > Looking at your output, it's possible that your ZIP extractor
> > messed up.
> >
> > I see a tsize of 6140977 which I think normally indicates the length
> > of the file.
> >
> > kernel32 should be 6117984 bytes and have an md5sum of
> > f9a1048f73be239c24cc6cd483bb9c62 (I almost always have the current
> > version of RIPLinuX).
> >
> > My guess is that you extracted this with an option to convert
> > LF->CR/LF if my assumption on the file length is correct.
> >
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> At the end it was not my unzip. I downloaded all the archives on my
> desktop computer (ubuntu), extracted and copied the files to my server
> (very slow asus wl-500g). I used for copying filezilla which copied
> (transfere type = auto) some files e.g. kernel32 in ascii-mode.

Okay, filezilla in ascii-mode did corrupt the binary file.

What was done to get a NON corrupt file?



Geert Stappers
Remembering the times of FTP  ;-)




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