[c-nsp] Upgrade from 12.2(17a)LD to 12.2(28)S gone horribly wrong...I think.

[Rodney Dunn]

This is a perfect reason why you never want
to have a flash media that the box can's boot
directly from rommon on.

Don't save your configuration or you will lose
what is there.  In fact I would do a:

copy start: slot0:backup.cfg

to save a copy of your configuration.


Do you have console access to it?

If so you could reboot it and send a break
to it and drop it to rommon.

Then do:

b slot0:<filename>

and it should boot the image directly.

Even if you don't have a boot image the box
should still try and boot an image from slot0:.

Or you could take the flash card to another box
and load the boot image on it and then put it
back in the router and copy it to bootflash.

Rodney


On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:11:22PM -0800, Aaron Glenn wrote:
> Chalk it up to lazyness, pure naivete, or a deadly combination of
> both, but somehow I've manage to toast a 7513 while going upgrading to
> a newer IOS image. In my defense, it was for SAA functionality...(-:
> 
> After copying the bin to slot0, setting the proper boot system flash
> parameter, writting to memory, and rebooting, the router comes up, but
> doesn't see the other RSP nor the two ethernet and two DS3 cards in
> it. Of course I didn't notice this fact until I tried to upgrade the
> boot loader and couldn't connect to the tftp server.
> 
> Whoops.
> 
> I've got a formatted bootflash, and two IOS images on one flash card.
> I'm afraid to reboot with the previous 12.2(17a) image because my
> bootflash is...well...empty. I don't want to turn this router into a
> nightstand.
> 
> Your suggestions on the best course of action are appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> aaron.glenn
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