Help with Kernel-compiling for i9100 - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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??

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