[nsp] Source of 7200 flash card?
jlewis at lewis.org
jlewis at lewis.org
Tue Apr 20 14:20:28 EDT 2004
Actually, I should have said 'if something happens to your bootflash'. I
remembered it wrong while eating my lunch. If your bootflash gets hosed,
you cannot boot directly to CF from ROM IOS.
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Roy wrote:
>
> You might check the bootflash image. I got around this limitation on at
> least one of my systems by updating the bootflash.
>
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>
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> > just get a compact flash and CF <-> PCMCIA adaptor.
> >
> > Cisco doesn't officially support it, but it'll work.
>
> All the ones (7206's) I've seen can't access CF from the old/stripped down
> ROM IOS or rommon. I like to keep one slot as a linear flash card
> (usually 16-20mb) with a failsafe IOS version, and then use a big CF in a
> PCMCIA converter for the "real" IOS. That way, if anything 'happens' to
> the CF, you can get mostly up and running using the IOS on the flash
> card...at least enough to reformat the CF and tftp an image to it.
>
> Otherwise, if you're doing comlex stuff (vlan trunking) or have interfaces
> unknown to ROM IOS, your router will be dead in the water if it reboots
> and something's happened to the CF card.
>
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