[nsp] Recoving from a bodged 6500 IOS conversion

[Frank Zahrt]

Simon,
  You might find this link helpful. Seems to be applicable for the
situation you are encountering:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/473/14.shtml

  You might need a cco login to get to it. If you don't have one, I can
forward the pdf to you.

Regards,
Frank


Frank Zahrt CCNP CCDP
Senior Network Engineer
Volo Communications
407-389-3232

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Lockhart [mailto:simonl at rd.bbc.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:44 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [nsp] Recoving from a bodged 6500 IOS conversion

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
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