Re: Maybe a bit off topic

From: giuks (giuliano.barros@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2008 - 16:49:16 ARST


It could sound a little stupid but be aware of "boot system" entries.. It
already caused us lots of headaches, mainly after outages with some sup not
coming up due to wrong configuration.
Ex: if you configure a image in the boot system entry and this image is not
in there, the switch falls in ROMMON if you have another image in
sup-bootflash...

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_configuration_example09186a00804ceb07.shtml

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a008015bfa1.shtml

giuks

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Pavel Bykov <slidersv@gmail.com> wrote:

> Agree with Dale.
> I have seen this mishap with config ragister a lot, when it is set to
> something like 0x1
> Set it to standard autoboot and you should be good to go
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeffrey,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Jeffrey Biggs <j.biggs@myactv.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Trying to setup SUP720's redundant in a 6509 chassis and need some good
> > > documentation to find out why the chassis boots into rommon until I
> tell
> > it
> > > to "boot" then the IOS takes off and the RP then boots. I have my
> > > "theories" but they are nothing more than that as it is hard to find a
> > good
> > > link to some documentation on setting this up.
> >
> > I've seen this happen when the SP has the wrong config-register.
> >
> > Once the RP is booted, login and run:
> >
> > "remote command switch show boot"
> >
> > If it's something other than 0x2102, or some other value that means
> > it'll go into ROMMON, just re-enter the config-register in the RP and
> > write the config -- the proper value will be propagated to the SP
> > (verify with the same command as above).
> >
> > cheers,
> > Dale
> >
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