[c-nsp] non-VXR 7200 and 12.3

[Ed Ravin]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:07:40PM -0400, Robert Boyle wrote:
> At 12:02 PM 4/25/2005, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:35:51PM -0300, Lucas Iglesias wrote:
> >> We are about to buy a used 7206 (at a very cheap prize), but my 
> >experience
> >> with them is limited to the VXR series.
> >
> >> 2- Does them support the same Image?
> >
> >No.  The non-VXR boxes won't boot anything later than 12.2T.  If you don't
> >need anything later than that, they will serve you well.
> 
> I've never heard that. We run 12.3 on a couple of our 7200 non-VXR boxes. 
> Same images. They are great for edge boxes. You are limited to the 
> unobtainable NPE-225 if you want 256MB of RAM and you can never have more 
> than that since the NPE-400/G1 are not supported in the non VXR chassis.

We couldn't get our NPE-150 box (128 MB) to boot anything past
12.2T.  Here's what it said:

  00:00:05: %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure console
debugging
output.

  %SYS-4-CONFIG_NEWER: Configuration from version 12.2 may not be correctly
understood
  *Feb 14 11:30:54: %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure
console
debugging output.

  %SYS-6-BOOT_MESSAGES: Messages above this line are from the boot loader.
  Self decompressing the image :
#####################################################################################################################################################################################################################################
[OK]

  *** Illegal Opcode Exception ***
  PC = 0x808993a8, Cause = 0x28, Status Reg = 0x34400002

  monitor: command "boot" aborted due to exception


as soon as the image was loaded.

And someone in Cisco told us we were out of luck.  If you can tell us
otherwise I'd be very interested.

	-- Ed