[nsp] boot system command on 3550

Mustafa mustafa at palnet.com
Tue Jun 29 04:41:29 EDT 2004


hi

you have to partition your flash first,  

then put 2 images, 


cheers



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yuval Ben-Ari" <yuvalba at netvision.net.il>
To: <Fredrik.Jacobsson at enskilda.se>; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: RE: [nsp] boot system command on 3550


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
>> Fredrik.Jacobsson at enskilda.se
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:37 AM
>> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> Subject: [nsp] boot system command on 3550
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> Is it possible to configure multiple IOS images for the boot 
>> sequence on a
>> 3550?
> 
> sure, why not:
> 
> 3550(config)#boot system ?
>  WORD  pathlist of boot file(s) ... file1;file2;...
> 
> 3550(config)#boot system
> flash:c3550-i9k2l2q3-mz.121-19.EA1a.bin;c3550-i9q3l2-mz.121-9.EA1.bin
> 3550(config)#end
> 3550#sh boot
> BOOT path-list:
> flash:c3550-i9k2l2q3-mz.121-19.EA1a.bin;c3550-i9q3l2-mz.121-9.EA1.bin
> Config file:          flash:/config.text
> Private Config file:  flash:/private-config.text
> Enable Break:         no
> Manual Boot:          no
> HELPER path-list:
> NVRAM/Config file
>      buffer size:    393216
> 3550#
> 
> Yuval
> 
> 
>> On a router or a 6500/4500 one can configure multiple "boot 
>> system flash"
>> commands
>> to have it boot on a specified secondary image if the first 
>> one fails, but
>> for a 3550
>> it sets the bootvaiable directly, so it just remembers the last "boot
>> system"-command.
>> 
>> Can one, for example, put more than one image on a single "boot
>> system"-command?
>> 
>> Specifying more then one IOS would make me feel a bit safer when doing
>> remote upgrades :)
>> 
>> Best regards
>> /Fredrik Jacobsson
>> 
>> 
> 
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