From b58620114ef508da1ac3af35fe9a2b765f436cea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Philippov <themactep@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 14:07:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update faq.md --- en/faq.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/en/faq.md b/en/faq.md index 89330a8..68eff3f 100644 --- a/en/faq.md +++ b/en/faq.md @@ -4,8 +4,14 @@ Frequesntly Asked Questions --------------------------- -### How to strip U-Boot wrapper from a binary image +### How to strip U-Boot Image wrapper from a binary image +Sometimes vendor's firmware consists of binary images intended +for use with U-Boot image loader and prepended with headers in +[U-Boot Image wrapper format](https://formats.kaitai.io/uimage/). +The header should be stripped off before you can use such an image +as a raw binary file. Here's how you can strip the first 64 bytes +from a file: ``` dd if=inputfile.img of=outputfile.bin bs=64 skip=1 ```