From: G F Marsh (gfm@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 18:26:11 GMT-3
Check that your flash is not in read only, to change to read/write change
your config register to 0x2101 and reboot. You should then be able to
proceed with writing the IOS to flash from TFTP.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Libone Mhlanga <libone@digisle.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: error in upgrading a 2503
> Hello,
> I am trying to upgrade a 2503 and keep getting the following error :-
>
> CCIE_3(boot)#copy tftp flash
>
> System flash directory:
> No files in System flash
> [0 bytes used, 8388608 available, 8388608 total]
> Address or name of remote host [10.10.10.2]?
> Source file name? c2500-js-l.112-18.bin
> Destination file name [c2500-js-l.112-18.bin]?
> Accessing file 'c2500-js-l.112-18.bin' on 10.10.10.2...
> Loading c2500-js-l.112-18.bin from 10.10.10.2 (via Ethernet0): ! [OK]
>
> Device needs erasure before copying new file
> Erase flash device before writing? [confirm]y
>
> Copy 'c2500-js-l.112-18.bin' from server
> as 'c2500-js-l.112-18.bin' into Flash WITH erase? [yes/no]yes
> Erasing device... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...NOT erased
> Copy aborted - erase failed
> ERR: 'c2500-js-l.112-18.bin' open - device needs erasure
>
> Now it won't even pull back the old IOS version that I had backed up to
the
> tftp server !!!!
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Libone
>
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