[c-nsp] Image in slot0: vs. flash after reload

[Atanas Yankov]

Simply write boot system slot0:c3640-jk9s-mz.122-31.bin the only thing 
that you need to change is name of ios depend on what you have , yes you 
a right there is no explicit command and you can't see in help context ? 
;))

br,
CCNP Atanas Yankov
Network Administrator
AngelSoft Ltd.


John Neiberger wrote:

>The really weird thing that I can't figure out is that I don't have any
>"boot system" commands in the config, so why was it running the correct
>image in flash before it reloaded? I don't understand how that could
>have happened. The router reloaded due to a software forced crash. I
>wonder if that somehow caused it to boot the wrong image? I can't
>imagine that a software forced crash would current the image in flash.
>Is it possible that the image in flash isn't any good so the router
>automatically decided to try slot0:, even without the "boot system"
>commands?
>
>This is really baking my noodle. I need to figure out why it's behaving
>this way before I do anything to it.
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>Thanks!
>John
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>>>>"Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb at slac.stanford.edu> 3/14/06 3:22:38 PM >>>
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>That is consistent with my experience.  Not that I like
>it.  I am "guessing" that the presumption was that if
>you had a card in the slot, and there was an image there,
>it was the "newer" one, and the boot flash was the fallback.
>Same thing happens by the way) if you have firmware on 
>flash card.
>
>Thinking about where the 3640 was targeted (remote
>offices), it might have been because it would be
>easier to have updates shipped by flash card, or
>a backup image on a flash card.
>
>Gary
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of John
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>Neiberger
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>>Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:49 PM
>>To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net 
>>Subject: [c-nsp] Image in slot0: vs. flash after reload
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>>I had a 3640 reload and it booted to the image in slot0: 
>>instead of the
>>image in the on-board flash. Is this expected behavior if no "boot
>>system" statements are in the config? I would have expected it to
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>boot
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>>to on-board flash unless I specifically told it boot to the image in
>>slot0:, but that is not what happened. 
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>>Any thoughts?
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>>Thanks,
>>John
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