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Building android - how to load kernel image in mkbootimg command?

root@ubuntu:/media/Source/ICS_SOURCE# out/host/linux-x86/bin/mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk ramdisk.img.gz -o --boot.img error: could not load kernel 'zImage'

i am getting this error again and again..

Where i have to put kernel image to run this command?? actually after build source code i didn't get boot.img!

Solution

  • You will not get the bootimage (zImage or Image from arch/arm/boot folder) file after compiling kernel.

    move your mkbootimg binary to bin

    sudo mv mkbootimg /bin

    copy all the zImage, ramdisk.img.gz (when I compiled I used ramdisk.img) to a folder

    Open terminal there

    type 

    mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk ramdisk.img.gz -o --boot.img