[c-nsp] boot images for 72xx to fix in 4M flash

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

I would guess then that 12.0.23 S6 is deferred as well.

The question is, is there any fixes and updates that went into
12.0.24 S6 from 12.0.23 S6 that would be useful for a boot image
to have?

Of course you do realize all of this is academic because
once the 7206 has fully booted it is not running on the boot
image, it is running on whatever image it loaded from flash
or tftp.

The big problem I think is support for the various ethernet
and serial devices in the 7206.  The boot image should be
rather stripped of everything other than device support, as
the intent must be for the router to use it only for booting
an image via tftp or off a flash card or other file system.
Netflow is probably completely useless either way for this.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Dickinson [mailto:iand at eng.pipex.net]
>Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:55 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Rodney Dunn; Robert E.Seastrom; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] boot images for 72xx to fix in 4M flash
>
>
>CCO lists this as deferred:
>
>DDTS No(s):
>CSCsa81379
>Headline: Retirement of NetFlow Feature Acceleration; No
>upgrade required
>
>So it doesn't look particularly unsafe, but will we run into support
>issues with TAC by using this?
>
>I've been using c7200-boot-mz.120-24.S.bin for some time - I don't
>know if there are any boot related fixes between this and S6 though.
>I suspect I'm in the same boat whatever :-)
>
>Ian
>
>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>> I am pretty sure that c7200-boot-mz.120-24.S6.bin is the very
>last 12.0
>> one
>> that Cisco came out with that would fit.  About 4-6 months ago I got a
>> bug up
>> my ass and downloaded and tested a number of boot images allegedly
>> for 4MB 7206s to find the most up to date one that would still fit.
>> Very shortly after that most of those images disappeared into
>the great
>> Deferred List in the sky.
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Rodney Dunn [mailto:rodunn at cisco.com]
>>>Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:51 AM
>>>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>>>Cc: Rodney Dunn; Robert E.Seastrom; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] boot images for 72xx to fix in 4M flash
>>>
>>>
>>>I didn't know it would fit. No reason I'm aware of.
>>>
>>>On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 02:45:42AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>>
>>>>c7200-boot-mz.120-24.S6.bin fits in 4MB also:
>>>>
>>>>#sh bootflash:
>>>>-#- ED ----type---- --crc--- -seek--
>>>>nlen -length- ---------date/time--------- name
>>>>1   .. image        B2648E8B  37E1A4   27  3399972 Sep 8 2005
>>>>15:31:29 -07:00 c7200-boot-mz.120-24.S6.bin
>>>>
>>>>7772 bytes available (3400100 bytes used)
>>>>#
>>>>
>>>>Is there any reason to use 12.0.23 S6 instead of 12.0.24 S6?
>>>>
>>>>Ted
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>>>>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Rodney Dunn
>>>>>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:11 AM
>>>>>To: Robert E.Seastrom
>>>>>Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>>>>Subject: [c-nsp] boot images for 72xx to fix in 4M flash
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Sorry for the delay but I was able to make this happen.
>>>>>
>>>>>c7200-boot-mz for 12.0(21)S8 and 12.0(23)S6 are back on CCO.
>>>>>12.0(21)S8 should allow enough room for one crashinfo and
>>>>>still fit in a 4M bootflash. 12.0(23)S6 will fit but doesn't
>>>>>leave enough room for a crashinfo file.
>>>>>
>>>>>We will be updating the FN to reflect this. We are also working
>>>>>to see if we can reduce the size of a later image to fix and if
>>>>>so these older images would be removed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Rodney
>>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:36:04PM -0400, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Rodney Dunn <rodunn at cisco.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>That clearly will work. The drawback being if the flash card
>>>>>>>dies you have no fallback way to tftboot an image to the box.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>But if the flash card dies you are gonna have to have another
>>>>>>>card anyway.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Well, in my case I have an image there; I just ignore it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>ar01#dir bootflash:
>>>>>>Directory of bootflash:/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    1  -rw-     3189404  Oct 25 2004 09:53:35 +00:00
>>>>>
>>>>>c7200-boot-mz.120-21.S8.bin
>>>>>
>>>>>>3407872 bytes total (218340 bytes free)
>>>>>>ar01#
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There should be a boot image on CCO that will fix in the 4M
>>>>>>>flash for NPE's that are still being supported. I'm looking
>>>>>
>>>>>in to that.
>>>>>
>>>>>>bravo.  thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                        ---rob
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