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 ===Obtaining a boot.img===
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+To retrieve the boot.img from the device one can simply find the boot partition in the filesystem, and use <code>|adb pull|</code>.
-The way this was originally accomplished was to find the boot partition on the file system and run |adb pull|. So for the flame this was
+For the flame, for example:
 <pre>
 adb pull /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot .
 </pre>
-Where the file specified is a friendly symlink to /dev/block/mmcblk0p7. For certain other devices the partitions lived under |/dev/mtd/| and the mappings could be found by executing |cat /proc/mtd| on the device.
+Where the file specified above is a friendly symlink to <code>|/dev/block/mmcblk0p7|</code>. For certain other devices (such as the hamachi) the partitions lived under <code>|/dev/mtd/|</code> and the mappings could be found by executing <code>|cat /proc/mtd|</code> on the device.
 ====Alternatively====
-If you already have an image from the OEM or elsewhere ready to flash, you don't need to take the image from the device.
+If one already has an image from the OEM or elsewhere, pulling the boot partition from the device is not necessary.
 ===Splitting the boot.img===