[c-nsp] Cat6506 + sup/msfc2: native IOS refuses to boot

[Sukumar Subburayan]

Can you try these two methods:

1. When the box boots up and is in RP-rommon prompt:

1. type 'priv'
2. if you see something with a line starting with 'BOOT=bootflash:......'
    do 'unset BOOT'
3. 'confreg 0x2102'
4.  'sync'

Now, again drop to rommon of SP (by power-cycling the box)

and try doing a manual boot from SP using 'boot ..'

The RP-should autoboot the image on the PCMCIA, when the console switches 
to RP.

sukumar




On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Matti Saarinen wrote:

>
> Has anyone else experinced the following? (Unfortunately, our Cisco
> support provider has been unhelpful regarding this case, so far.)
>
>
> We've got a Cat6506 with sup2/msfc running currently CatOS on SP and
> IOS on RP. We tried to convert it to native (12.2(18)SXF6) but it
> failed. The native IOS image is stored on a PCMCIA card in slot0 and
> both SP and RP have 256 MB memory.
>
>
> When I boot the SP from PCMCIA, it boots without any complaints
>
> rommon 3 > boot disk0:s222-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF6.bin
>
> Self extracting the image... [OK]
> Self decompressing the image : ####...[OK]
>
>
> and moves control to RP.
>
>
> 00:00:10: %OIR-SP-6-CONSOLE: Changing console ownership to route processor
>
>
>
> System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(11r)E1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
> Copyright (c) 2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Cat6k-MSFC2 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory
> rommon 1 >
>
>
>
> Now, when I issue the boot sup-disk0:NNN command on RP, the RP loads
> the boot loader image stored on RP's bootflash, then it prints a few
> empty lines on console and finally crashes. When the box crashes,
> there is a crash dump generated on stored on SP's bootflash.
>
>
>
> [RP's] rommon 1 > boot sup-disk0:s222-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF6.bin
> Self decompressing the image : ############ [...] [OK]
> RP: Currently running ROMMON from S (Gold) region
> [...]
> *** System received a Software forced crash ***
> signal= 0x17, code= 0x41df0000, context= 0x41e17e04
> PC = 0x402cf50c, Cause = 0x1820, Status Reg = 0x34018002
> rommon 3 >
>
> RP doesn't even seem to try to download the software from SP (via
> tftp).
>
>
> I'm starting to supect that the ROMMON version on RP is too old and it
> doesn't support disk0 or it doesn't know how to download so large
> images as 12.2(18)SXF6 via tftp. These are only random guesses,
> though.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> - Matti -
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