Extract kernel from boot.img - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
I have Samsung Galaxy Player(yp-g70). I want to extract the kernel from a cm7 rom's boot.img made for this device. I tried it with perl sripts, on ubuntu and windows too, but I get the same error:
"android magic not found in boot.img. giving up"
How can I extract the kernel from this boot.img?
(I attached the boot.img, and the scripts)

the same problem
i also got the same issue , my device is htc one x . any one can help?

Use Dsixda android kitchen

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[Q] Compiling kernel from source and using zImage

Dear xda-developers members,
I need some help in the right direction:
I have installed Dhollmen's kernel (from forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176563) on my GT-P5110
which is rooted and running CM10.1 at the moment and I used cwm to flash the kernel (from the link above).
Now I am trying to compile the kernel from their source code (see link) and flash the compiled kernel.
This has not been a success yet. I either get stuck at bootscreen or in a boot loop.
What I have tried:
Code:
export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=~/android/toolchains/arm-eabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-eabi-
make dhollmen_P51XX_defconfig
make
This resulted in zImage file and I tried to flash with heimdall:
Code:
heimdall flash --KERNEL arch/arm/boot/zImage
This got me stuck on the bootscreen
Try 2:
With the compiled zImage and the working Dhollmen kernel zip (DhollmenCM-P51xx-Kernel_20130706.zip from the link)
I unpacked the working Dhollmen kernel, split boot.img, replace zImage with mine, repack to boot.img, repack to zip and flash zip from cmw
This got me stuck in a boot loop
The frustrating thing is that I have no errors so I am clueless of what is going wrong.
Can someone explain how he is going from his source code (https://github.com/Dhollmen/DhollmenCM_kernel) to a flashable zip file?
EDITED: Posted in Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, thread can be closed/deleted here
You will have more support in the tab 2 forum...this is the tab 10.1 P7500 forum.
Sent from my GT-P7500 using Tapatalk HD

Help with Kernel-compiling for i9100

Hi everyone,
I need some help while I try to compile my first kernel (for experiments) with the Linaro-Toolchain. I followed a youtube instruction and it works well till the point to handle a stock/original boot.img file (with $ abootimg -x boot.img)
INFO: I´m playing with the slimkernel source, Linaro toolchain and mint 17.
Well before bothering you, i tried 1000 different ways to get this boot.img. But:
- extracted stock fimware only contains a boot.bin (and size does not match)
- a boot.img form a custom kernel zip brings me "no Android Magic value. giving up"
- downloadable boot.img are for all other phones excluding i9100...
Do you have any idea how to get this f****g boot.img which is working to get the kernel compiled, or do you know what i did wrong with that??
Thanks in advance
Ambador
Have you tried to extract a boot.img from a slimrom zip?
Yes I did but gave me the same result. I tried different kernels, roms and everytime while typing abootimg x -boot.img the fail appears.
Ambador said:
Yes I did but gave me the same result. I tried different kernels, roms and everytime while typing abootimg x -boot.img the fail appears.
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I don't know really what you are doing atm because you are compiling a kernel from the kernel sourcecode. But I think that you are going to replace the zImage in the boot.img because kernel compiling doesn't include ramdisk right? Did you ever tryed to use dsixda-kitchen, It's usefull and also easy to use with kernel extracting.
Sorry if I got you wrong.
I used that kitchen already, but gave me the same missing android magic issue.
I tried an other thing, cuz im currently using apolo 7.1 kernel:
this kernel has a zimage only. So is it a possible way to get the kernel source, make a change (add an scheduler which is not in kernel) to see if it will work, compile the zimage with linaro and just replace it in the kernel.zip??

Can't unpack boot.img with any tool

Hello, I have built a custom kernel for CM12 (Android Lollipop) and I want to release it as a boot.img. After building the kernel, I took the brand new zImage and started searching for a tool that allowed me to unpack and repack the boot.img, which I had extracted from the ROM zip. The problem is, every kernel tool/kitchen failed to unpack the boot.img with errors like "Android Magic not found in boot.img" or other errors related to boot_magic or Android Magic.
What should I do in order to unpack the boot.img?
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I have a question about flashing Lenovo IdeaTab A1000LF (MTK6577 device). I would like to add busybox into initramfs and slightly change init strategy. boot.img from official ROM A1000LF_A412_01_05_130705_USER_DCC was unpacked with abootimg from Fedora repo. I added busybox for armv7l into initramfs/sbin and packed it again with the same tool. New boot.img was flashed into device with Flash Tools 3 (works on virtual machine with Win7) in Firmware Update mode with DA DL All With check sum option. Download mode did not work (there was errors in scatter file, __NODL_FAT partition exactly). Tablet was starting after flashing fow a few seconds. First boot logo was shown and then reboot again. Everything seems to work fine in case of flashing original boot.img. There might be some problems with Checksums or packing/unpacking initramfs (even if I create new boot.img without changes, tablet will not boot correctly). Do you have any ideas?
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Phone doesn't boot custom kernel on stock rom

Hello everyone.
I'm trying to compile from source the kernel of my phone which is an unlocked motorola g6 play codename aljeter with the stock rom (android pie). I found the kernel repository in this post https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-r-v5-unofficial-aljeter-bananadroid-for-moto-g6-play.4362405/. I downloaded the toolchain in my case arm-linux-androideabi-4.9 because my phone architecture is arm.
Then i extracted the defconfig from the stock kernel obtained from the extraction of stock boot.img using AIK. After that i successfully compiled the kernel and i obtained the Image, zImage, and zImage-dtb. I unpacked the boot.img using AIK and i changed the boot.img-kernel with my zImage-dtb (and of course i renamed my zImage-dtb with boot.img-kernel). Then i repacked everything and i obtained a image-new.img. I rebooted my phone in fastboot mode and i run "fastboot boot image-new.img" to boot the new boot.img. After that the phone showed the boot logo but it immediately reboot to the stock boot.img (stock kernel). I think that the problem is related to avb but i am not sure.
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