[c-nsp] Sup720 crashing at RP boot - HW revision dependent ?

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Marcus, since you're experiencing a software force crash, maybe you should open a tac case.

In a similar case of mine (booting seemed stuck for mins, but there wasn't any crash), i upgraded the flash monlib 
("upgrade filesystem monlib") and it worked fine afterwards.


--
Tassos

Marcus.Gerdon wrote on 11/03/2009 14:05:
> Tassos,
> 
> they've been delivered and supplier-tested with 8.4(2) and 12.2(17r)S4 and bootet with those smoothly in the 6506.
> 
> I'm running 8.5(1) and 12.2(17r)SX5 everywhere and updated those Sup's accordingly. But it didn't make difference.
> 
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Marcus
>  
> 
>> -----Urspru"ngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] Im Auftrag von 
>> Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Ma"rz 2009 12:25
>> An: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> Betreff: Re: [c-nsp] Sup720 crashing at RP boot - HW revision 
>> dependent ?
>>
>> Marcus, are you using the latest rommon in the SP (8.5(3)) 
>> and RP (12.2(17r)SX5)?
>>
>> 6500#remote command switch sh ver | i ROM:
>> ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 8.5(3)
>>
>> 6500#sh ver | i ROM:
>> ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(17r)SX5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Tassos
>>
>>
>> Marcus.Gerdon wrote on 11/03/2009 12:45:
>>> Hi @all,
>>>
>>> yesterday I've been hit by a somewhat strange - and 
>> possibly worrying -
>>> effect with Sup720 in 6500.
>>>
>>> I've got 3 Sup720-3BXL, one with an older HW revision (Sup: 
>> 4.4 / PFC:
>>> 1.6 / MSFC: 2.5) and 2 with newer (Sup: 5.2 / PFC: 1.8 / 
>> MSFC: 2.5). All
>>> three have been tested in a 6509 successfully by the 
>> supplier. According
>>> the test sheets they've used a Rev. 3.0 chassis.
>>>
>>> For offline testing and preparation I've an 6509 and 6506 
>> spare chassis
>>> at hands, both of them being Rev. 2.0.
>>>
>>> When trying to boot those Sup in my 6509 the older one 
>> boots fine and
>>> everything is ok. The newer ones both start to boot and 
>> after switching
>>> to boot the RP it stalls (download doesn't even start, hangs after
>>> memory is displayed). After a minute or two a 'software 
>> forced crash'
>>> occurs and I'm thrown do SP rommon.
>>>
>>> Up to this point no updates, config changes or anything other than
>>> plugging them in the chassis and turning the power on has been done.
>>>
>>> It doesn't matter if they're put in slot 5 or 6, if the 
>> working one is
>>> already active in slot 5 or if I'm manually booting from 
>> rommon instead
>>> of autoboot. Also the IOS used doesn't change anything 
>> (18SXF, 18SXI,
>>> 17SXd)
>>>
>>> Interestingly in the Rev. 2.0 6506 all three are booting 
>> fine. I've done
>>> both rom updates in the 6506 and tried again in the 6509 - 
>> without any
>>> change.
>>>
>>> To me this looks like there's some dependancy between HW 
>> revisions of
>>> the Sup or PFC (MSFC rev. is the same on all threee) and the 6509
>>> chassis (6506 wasn't effected). 
>>>
>>> I've searched cisco.com for quite some time but without any 
>> hint to this
>>> issue. The only thing I found was that there're a few 
>> 6509-NEB eeprom
>>> updates to be applied to the chassis itself. So in fact 
>> there is some
>>> active rom part with the chassis that supposedly will differ between
>>> revisions.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does someone stumbled upon this, had similar issues or 
>> maybe even know
>>> or did see any document (comp. matrix, workaround or alike) 
>> about this ?
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Marcus
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