[nsp] c2600 bug ?

[Siva Valliappan]

Hi Christopher,

   so we did some checking, the issue you describe below only happens
on the 2600 and not on other platforms.  it is not expected behavior
and the bug is being tracked by CSCdz26997.

cheers
.siva

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Siva Valliappan wrote:

> wierd.  anyway the reason why it works is that they router will attempt to
> boot the first file in your filesystem if a boot variable is not defined.
> so the name can be anything, but as long as the ELF header on the binary
> checks out for the platform in question, it will read the binary and
> attempt to decompress it.
>
> i will pass the e-mail on to some of the file system developers i work with
> to see if it's an expected behavior.
>
> cheers
> .siva
>
> On 5 Nov 2002, Christopher McCrory wrote:
>
> > Hello...
> >
> > Is this a ios bug and if so how would I report it?
> >
> > I was testing several different IOS versions in the lab.  Being a Unix
> > kind of guy, I did:
> > Router#copy tftp://192.168.9.1/c2600-io3-mz.122-12a.bin .
> >
> > instead of:
> > Router#copy tftp://192.168.9.1/c2600-io3-mz.122-12a.bin flash:
> >
> > now this is what I have:  ( it does work)
> >
> > Router#dir flash:
> > Directory of flash:/
> >
> > No files in directory
> >
> > 7864320 bytes total (2206628 bytes free)
> >
> >
> > Router#dir flash:.<TAB>
> > Router#dir flash:./c2600-io3-mz.122-12a.bin
> > Directory of flash:./c2600-io3-mz.122-12a.bin
> >
> > No such file
> >
> > 7864320 bytes total (2206628 bytes free)
> >
> > Router#sh ver
> > Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> > <snip>
> > System returned to ROM by reload
> > System image file is "flash:./c2600-io3-mz.122-12a.bin"
> >
> > cisco 2620 (MPC860) processor (revision 0x102) with 28672K/4096K bytes
> > of memory.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher McCrory
> >  "The guy that keeps the servers running"
> >
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> > no defense.  I tried it.  Only tinfoil works.
> >
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