From: William Walla (wwalla@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 12:05:12 GMT-3
Thanks you all for your great solutions. Another way that worked------
I actually ended up taking off the top of the router, in frustration! Then I
swapped the order of the 2 x 8mb flash. (thinking that it would not
recognize the ios.) and then default into boot>
This IS actually what happened. I could not believe it worked!!!!!
Then I tftp'd smaller 12.1 image onto the box, but it did not ask me to
erase the current ios to make room. But before I could do that (tftping) I
had to erase the 2 newly created partitions I had made by swapping the RAM
order. Then I needed to combine the flash "partition 1 16." Then copied the
flash from tftp. Reloaded. Then when I wanted to reload; it was trying to
boot the image from:
boot system tftp 255.255.255.255..
which would screw up every time.
After I entered "no system boot" and wrote it to mem. It reloaded fine by
default!
Now I ordered the correct amount of DRAM 16 and it will be here in 2 days.
I wanted to show step by step in case someone was interested. I have been
lurking around mostly trying to sponge up knowlege from your other issues
and solutions. I wanted to take the opportunity to post something I have
learned for the GS.
On 3/13/06, Guyler, Rik <rguyler@shp-dayton.org> wrote:
>
> Looks like the router is only recognizing 2MBs of system RAM:
>
> System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-1996 by
> cisco Systems 2500 processor with 2048 Kbytes of main memory
>
> How much RAM do you think you have in that box? If it should have 16MB
> then
> maybe something's gone bad. If not, then you can max it out to 16MB very
> inexpensively these days.
>
> Rik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> William Walla
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:30 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Cc: 'William Walla'
> Subject: 2524 12.3 crashing loop
>
> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 2500 Software
> (C2500-IS-L), Version 12.3(13b), RELEASE SOFTWARE
> (fc2)
> Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c)
> 1986-2005
> by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Thu 11-Aug-05 15:58 by alnguyen Image text-base: 0x0307D43C,
> data-base: 0x00001000
>
> Guys/Ladies-
>
> How do I fix this mess? I upgraded the ios to 12.3 (Must have been the
> wrong one.) It was small enough to fit into flash and when it loaded it
> had
> a memory allocation failure. Then it tries to load from the TFTP server
> where I got the image from. Below:
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> wwalla
>
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>
> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 2500 Software
> (C2500-IS-L), Version 12.3(13b), RELEASE SOFTWARE
> (fc2)
> Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c)
> 1986-2005
> by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Thu 11-Aug-05 15:58 by alnguyen Image text-base: 0x0307D43C,
> data-base: 0x00001000
>
>
> SYSTEM INIT: INSUFFICIENT MEMORY TO BOOT THE IMAGE!
>
>
>
> %Software-forced reload
>
>
> Unexpected exception to CPU vector 34, PC = 3396110
>
> -Traceback= 3396110 337724C 3377A78 339CBE8 3389A1C 3389C3E 363E80C
> 339133E
> 33913BC 32B0298 32B05D4
>
>
> === Flushing messages () ===
>
> Buffered messages:
> Queued messages:
> *Mar 1 00:00:08.491: %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure
> console debugging output.
>
> *Mar 1 00:00:08.147: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 4000 bytes
> failed from 0x339CBE0, alignment 0
> Pool: Processor Free: 0 Cause: Not enough free memory Alternate Pool:
> I/O
> Free: 0 Cause: Not enough free memory
>
> -Process= "Init", ipl= 4, pid= 3
> -Traceback= 33771CE 3377A78 339CBE8 3389A1C 3389C3E 363E80C 339133E
> 33913BC
> 32B0298 32B05D4
>
>
> Unexpecte
> System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-1996 by
> cisco Systems 2500 processor with 2048 Kbytes of main memory
>
> SERVICE_MODULE(0): self test finished: Passed
> %SERVICE_MODULE-4-ACCESSERROR: Unit 0 reports register access error - bad
> register value supplied Loading c2500-is-l.123-13b.bin from 192.168.1.100
> (via Ethernet0):
>
>
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!! [buffer overflow - 1205760/1205542 bytes]
>
> F3: 15283864+878576+940428 at 0x3000060
>
> System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-1996 by
> cisco Systems 2500 processor with 2048 Kbytes of main memory
>
> SERVICE_MODULE(0): self test finished: Passed Loading
> c2500-is-l.123-13b.bin
> ... [timed out]
>
> F3: 15283864+878576+940428 at 0x3000060
>
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