Re: OT: Failed to boot from Disk1

From: Yasser Aly (blackyeyes00@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 12:45:57 GMT-3


It is solved.

Bootimage has to be stored on either bootflash or PCMCIA flash card. It
cannot be stored on a Flash Disk. I uploaded the boot on flash PCMCIA and
main image at disk and it worked fine.

Thanks for your help

>From: MADMAN > > > Are you still having trouble with this? It should
make no >differance whether you use slot0 or 1 but truth be told I never
have >tried using the bootldr and a flash disk though I have with a
PCMCIA >card. > > Dave > >Yasser Aly wrote: >>Dave, >> >>I cannot wipe
the current one to have enough space as the bootflash >>size >>is 8M and
the new boot image I would like to use requires min 16M. >> >> Do u think
it would make a difference if I inserted the Disk in >>Slot0 >>instead of
Slot1 ? >> >>I can see from the show version that the router booted from
Slot0 >>and >>didn't use the bootflash image. >> >>Check output of " sh
ver " >> >>7513#sh ver >>Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
>>IOS (tm) RSP Software (RSP-JSV56I-M), Version 12.1(11b)E11, EARLY
>>DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) >>TAC Support:
http://www.cisco.com/tac >>Copyright (c) 1986-2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
>>Compiled Tue 24-Dec-02 22:18 by hqluong >>Image text-base: 0x60010958,
data-base: 0x61856000 >> >>ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(8)CA1,
EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE >>SOFTWARE (fc1) >>BOOTLDR: RSP Software
(RSP-JSV56I-M), Version 12.1(11b)E11, EARLY >>DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE
(fc2) >> >>7513 uptime is 20 hours, 36 minutes >>System returned to ROM
by reload at 04:03:09 eet Fri May 30 2003 >>System restarted at 04:05:24
eet Fri May 30 2003 >>System image file is
"slot0:rsp-jsv56i-mz.121-11b.E11.bin" >> >>cisco RSP4 (R5000) processor
with 131072K/2072K bytes of memory. >>R5000 CPU at 200Mhz, Implementation
35, Rev 2.1, 512KB L2 Cache >>Last reset from power-on >>G.703/E1
software, Version 1.0. >>G.703/JT2 software, Version 1.0. >>X.25
software, Version 3.0.0. >>SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian
Technology Corp). >>Bridging software. >>TN3270 Emulation software.
>>Chassis Interface. >>1 FEIP2 controller (1 FastEthernet). >>3 VIP4-80
RM7000 controllers (2 GigabitEthernet)(1 ATM). >>1 FastEthernet/IEEE
802.3 interface(s) >>2 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) >>1 ATM
network interface(s) >>123K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
>> >>20480K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
>>342468K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 1 (Sector size 512 bytes).
>>8192K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K). >>No slave
installed in slot 7. >>Configuration register is 0x2102 >> >>7513# >> >>
>>>From: MADMAN >Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:22:57 -0500 > > > >Adam
>>>Asay >> >>wrote: >>Yasser, >> >>This may not be correct for a 7500,
but I >>believe >>you need a >>bootloader >>in the onboard flash. This
bootloader >>will then >>be pointed to the >>image >>on your flash card.
>> >>You do this on >>the >>6500 like this >> >>boot system flash
>>slot0:c6sup22-jsv-mz.121-11b.E4 >> >>>>boot bootldr
bootflash:c6msfc2-boot-mz.121-11b.E4 >> >>Once >>>>again, I am >>> >>not
sure if it is the same on the 7500's. >> >>Good Luck. >> >>Adam >>Asay >>
>>>>SR Systems Engineer >>aasay@cerberian.com > > Yes it works the
>>>>same on >>> >>the 7500 but why don't you simply clean >up your
bootflash and make >>room >>for the new boot image?? > > Dave >>
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> >-- >David Madland >CCIE# 2016 >Sr. Network Engineer >Qwest
Communications >612-664-3367 > >"Government can do something for the
people only in proportion as it >can do something to the people." --
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