[c-nsp] non-VXR 7200 and 12.3

[Rodney Dunn]

That's correct.

CSCee11101
Externally found severe defect: Closed (C)
NPE-100 and NPE-150 will not boot on new IOS images

Rodney

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:25:11PM -0500, Church, Chuck wrote:
> I believe Rodney mentioned this a couple months ago.  Some code needed
> to be added to 12.3 that the NPE-150 hardware would no longer support.
> 
> 
> 
> Chuck Church
> Lead Design Engineer
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ed Ravin
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:51 PM
> To: Robert Boyle
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] non-VXR 7200 and 12.3
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:07:40PM -0400, Robert Boyle wrote:
> > At 12:02 PM 4/25/2005, you wrote:
> > >On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:35:51PM -0300, Lucas Iglesias wrote:
> > >> We are about to buy a used 7206 (at a very cheap prize), but my 
> > >experience
> > >> with them is limited to the VXR series.
> > >
> > >> 2- Does them support the same Image?
> > >
> > >No.  The non-VXR boxes won't boot anything later than 12.2T.  If you
> don't
> > >need anything later than that, they will serve you well.
> > 
> > I've never heard that. We run 12.3 on a couple of our 7200 non-VXR
> boxes. 
> > Same images. They are great for edge boxes. You are limited to the 
> > unobtainable NPE-225 if you want 256MB of RAM and you can never have
> more 
> > than that since the NPE-400/G1 are not supported in the non VXR
> chassis.
> 
> We couldn't get our NPE-150 box (128 MB) to boot anything past
> 12.2T.  Here's what it said:
> 
>   00:00:05: %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure console
> debugging
> output.
> 
>   %SYS-4-CONFIG_NEWER: Configuration from version 12.2 may not be
> correctly
> understood
>   *Feb 14 11:30:54: %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure
> console
> debugging output.
> 
>   %SYS-6-BOOT_MESSAGES: Messages above this line are from the boot
> loader.
>   Self decompressing the image :
> ########################################################################
> ########################################################################
> ########################################################################
> #############
> [OK]
> 
>   *** Illegal Opcode Exception ***
>   PC = 0x808993a8, Cause = 0x28, Status Reg = 0x34400002
> 
>   monitor: command "boot" aborted due to exception
> 
> 
> as soon as the image was loaded.
> 
> And someone in Cisco told us we were out of luck.  If you can tell us
> otherwise I'd be very interested.
> 
> 	-- Ed
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