[nsp] Recoving from a bodged 6500 IOS conversion

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

you want the sup image on the sup-bootflash and the msfc image on the bootflash

you seem to have the sup image on the bootflash and no msfc image

Steve



On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Simon Lockhart wrote:

> Okay, I'm a mong. I appear to have bodged a 6500 CatOS -> IOS conversion,
> and now can't persuade the MSFC2 to boot anything.
> 
> Is there anyway to recover?...
> 
> On the MSFC2 (visible by booting CatOS on the Sup1A from slot0)
> 
> 	System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(2r)E, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> 	Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> 	Cat6k-MSFC2 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
> 
> Can't see the PCMCIA card:
> 
> 	rommon 1 > dir slot0:
> 	PCMCIA slot0 device is not initialized
> 	open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0x0
> 	trouble reading device magic number
> 	dir: cannot open device "slot0:"
> 
> Got an IOS image on bootflash:
> 
> 	rommon 2 > dir bootflash:
>          	File size           Checksum   File name
>   	13142776 bytes (0xc88af8)   0x1e94f73c    c6sup12-psv-mz.121-8a.E4.bin
> 
> On the Sup1A:
> 
> 	System Bootstrap, Version 5.3(1)
> 	Copyright (c) 1994-1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> 	c6k_sup1 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
> 
> Have CatOS on the PCMCIA card:
> 
> 	rommon 1 > dir slot0:
>          	File size           Checksum   File name
>    	  6227851 bytes (0x5f078b)   0xfa18f16a    cat6000-sup.5-4-2.bin
> 
> Have IOS on the bootflash:
> 
> 	rommon 2 > dir bootflash:
> 	         File size           Checksum   File name
> 	  13142776 bytes (0xc88af8)   0x1e94f73c    c6sup12-psv-mz.121-8a.E4.bin
> 
> I can boot CatOS from slot0: successfully, but the MSFC2 doesn't boot anything.
> 
> If I boot IOS from bootflash:, I get...
> 
> 	rommon 3 > boot
> 
> 	Self decompressing the image : ###################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### [OK]
> 
>               	Restricted Rights Legend
> 
> 	Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is
> 	subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph
> 	(c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted
> 	Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph
> 	(c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer
> 	Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.
> 	
>            	cisco Systems, Inc.
>            	170 West Tasman Drive
>            	San Jose, California 95134-1706
> 	
> 	
> 	
> 	Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software 
> 	IOS (tm) c6sup1_sp Software (c6sup1_sp-SPV-M), Version 12.1(8a)E4, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> 	TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
> 	Copyright (c) 1986-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> 	Compiled Sat 08-Sep-01 17:47 by hqluong
> 	Image text-base: 0x60020950, data-base: 0x60646000
> 	
> 	Start as Primary processor
> 	
> 	00:00:03: %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure console debugging output.
> 	
> 	00:00:03: %OIR-6-CONSOLE: Changing console ownership to route processor
> 	
> 	
> 	
> 	System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(2r)E, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> 	Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> 	Cat6k-MSFC2 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
> 	
> 	Self decompressing the image : ###################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### [OK]
> 	
> ...at which point, the switch locks solid, and I need to powercycle it.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Simon
>