Re: Rommon NVRAM area is corrupted :

From: Pavlo Bykov (slidersv@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 06 2008 - 06:36:50 ART


Ok, this sounds much more Star Trek than most problems.

The solution is to fix oscilator crystal (i am not kidding)

See here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ts/fn/200/fn27595.html

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:23 PM, KS Anpu <ksanpu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Can anyone advise me , or if there is any guide / link to explain how to
> NVRAM parameter value in Rommon?
>
> Regards,
> Anbu
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: KS Anpu <ksanpu@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:01 PM
> Subject: Rommon NVRAM area is corrupted :
> To: Cisco certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>
>
> Hi all ,
> Here i am in a situation with boot problem in 6509. **When booting
> Switch is going to Rommon and there is no veriables configured including
> Cofig register & Boot , then if i set those ,and reset it is booting but
> after booted there is no configuration in the startup config. if i saved
> the running config to startup config only nvram have the startup
> configuration . then the switch is working with the configuration i
> configured. then if i restart the switch it is booting with out any problem
> but if i power off and on again it is giving the same problem again.
> The error message i am getting is *Warning: Rommon NVRAM area is corrupted.
> Initialize the area to default values
>
> *I have tried to format sup-bootdisk: , bootflash: but no use still i
> cannot
> solve this.
> *
> here some outputs when booting from off mode (not restart)
> *
> System Bootstrap, Version 8.5(2)
> Copyright (c) 1994-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc.
>
> Testing lower main memory - data equals address
> Testing lower main memory - checkerboard
> Testing lower main memory - inverse checkerboard
> Clearing lower memory for cache initialization
> Clearing bss
> Clearing autoboot state machine
> melody_present_reg: 1st read w/ 0x5555
> melody_present_reg: 2nd read w/ 0xaaaa, reversed: 0x5555
> Bootdisk adapter is detected, enabling bootdisk access...
> Reprogramming CS1 w/ Melody value...
>
> Reading monitor variables from NVRAM
> Warning: Rommon NVRAM area is corrupted. Initialize the area to default
> values
>
> Reset reason for CPU board 0xffff , BaseBoard 0x201ffff, display 0x0System
> Reset by Power On.
>
> Enabling interrupts
> Initializing TLB
> Initializing cache
> Initializing required TLB entries
> Initializing main memory
> Sizing NVRAM
> Initializing PCMCIA controller
> Initializing USB2.0 controller
> Exiting init
> Cat6k-Sup720/SP processor with 1048576 Kbytes of main memory
>
> Regards,
> Anbu
>
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