In the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.3, when using the Configuration via Protocol (CvP) scheme on Intel® Stratix® 10 or Intel® Agilex™ devices, you may see this error when loading a core.rbf image after previously attempting to load a truncated core.rbf image.
To work around this problem, power cycle the system before reloading another complete core.rbf image.
This problem is fixed starting with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 21.1.