This seems to dump from the start of the file if dsdt2.aml is exactly 0xB13C bytes: [mike@laptop ~]$ hexdump -Cv dsdt2.aml -s 0xB13C |head -2 0000b13c 44 53 44 54 3a 58 00 00 01 98 54 4f 53 49 4e 56 |DSDT:X....TOSINV| 0000b14c 54 4f 53 49 4e 56 30 30 01 00 00 00 49 4e 54 4c |TOSINV00....INTL| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html