[c-nsp] 7500 RSP16 boot not reading flash disk

[Rodney Dunn]

How ironic...I just saw something very similar to this
yesterday for a customer. It turns out it's an issue
with how quickly a particular type of flashdisk can
come online.

Are you sure that was the full log on bootup?

What we saw was something like this:

> > > >         SLOT 6 RSP is system master
> > > >
> > > >         RSP16 platform with 1048576 Kbytes of main memory
> > > >
> > > >         open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0xffffffff
> > > >
> > > >         trouble reading device magic number
> > > > 
> > > >         loadprog: error - on file open
> > > > 
> > > >         boot: cannot load "disk0:rsp-jsv-mz.122-15.T13.bin" 


Note the: open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0xffffffff

that is the key to identify the problem I looked at.


Can you try it again and get the full console log?

We found a workaround was to put in a bogus:
boot system tftp someimagename 1.1.1.1

command that would delay rommon from trying to read the flashdisk
by just a couple seconds. This allowed the flashdisk to power up
and become readable before rommon tried to get the image.

Remember RSP16's boot directly from rommon if a valid image is there
without going to the boot image.

Rodney



On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:47:33PM -0400, Joe Loiacono wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cannot boot a new RSP16 (in a 7513) from a 64M flash disk (Cisco 64M ATA
> Flash PC Card). It appears that the RSP can't read the flash disk:
> 
> Errors look like:
> 
> "device does not contain a valid magic number
> loadprog: error - on file open
> boot: cannot load disk1:rsp-jk9o3sv-m3.124-1a.bin"
> 
> I formatted the disk from the RSP after booting from NVRAM BOOTLDR. I
> successfully 'tftp'd' the image onto the flash disk. The 'sh disk1:' and
> 'dir disk1:' commands work fine. I've used a second flash disk with same
> symptoms. Any ideas?
> 
> The start config includes:
> 
> boot system flash disk1:rsp-jk9o3sv-m3.124-1a.bin
> 
> ... and the CONFIG REG is:
> 
> 0x2102
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe Loiacono
> 
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