Bad Magic Number

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <GDEHIPAFEMJDKNFDCIEBIEGECCAA.kapilkk at yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> 	I am trying to boot linux on my custom mpc8xx card. I have ppcboot loaded
> and I am loading linux kernel image using tftp. When I say bootm it gives me
> error "Bad Magic Number".
> Can anybody please explain the error and suggest any solution for it.

The image you are trying to boot is not a PPCBoot image, i. e. it was
not created using the "mkimage" tool that omes with PPCBoot. See  the
PPCBoot README file.

Wolfgang Denk

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