[c-nsp] non-VXR 7200 and 12.3

[Brian Vowell]

We had a 7204 with an NPE-200 that booted 12.3 and 12.3T just fine.  
Maybe the more correct observation is that the NPE-150 won't do anything 
past 12.2 due to memory or flash size constraints.


--b

Ed Ravin wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:07:40PM -0400, Robert Boyle wrote:
>  
>
>>At 12:02 PM 4/25/2005, you wrote:
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>>
>>>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
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