[c-nsp] catalyst 6509 bootloader

Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists Lists at Hojmark.ORG
Wed Feb 8 17:56:05 EST 2006


> I am looking to upgrading our 6509 (redundant 
> WS-X6K-S2U-MSFC2) from 12.1(19)E1 to 12.2(18).SXD7.

> Do I also need to upgrade my bootloader?

You need to be running ROMMON 7.1(1) to support a sufficiently
large boot device (flash disk), since the SX image won't fit in
the Sup2 bootflash.

See http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cat6000-rommon

Both supervisor and MSFC must also have 256 MB DRAM, but that's
not an issue with -S2U-, which has 256 and 512 MB, respectively.

-A



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