[c-nsp] 6500 hybrid - native conversion crashes

[Church, Charles]

Sukumar,

	That worked perfectly!  I booted the SP, then:

rommon 2 > BOOT=sup-bootflash:c6sup22-ps-mz.121-27b.E1.bin
rommon 3 > priv
rommon 5 > confreg

           Configuration Summary
   (Virtual Configuration Register: 0x0)
enabled are:
 [ 0 ] break/abort has effect
 [ 1 ] console baud: 9600
 boot: ...... the ROM Monitor

do you wish to change the configuration? y/n  [n]:  y
 enable  "diagnostic mode"? y/n  [n]:
 enable  "use net in IP bcast address"? y/n  [n]:
 enable  "load rom after netboot fails"? y/n  [n]:
 enable  "use all zero broadcast"? y/n  [n]:
 disable "break/abort has effect"? y/n  [n]:
 enable  "ignore system config info"? y/n  [n]:
 change console baud rate? y/n  [n]:
change the boot characteristics? y/n  [n]:  y

 enter to boot:
 0 = ROM Monitor
 1 = the boot helper image
 2-15 = boot system
 [0]:  2

           Configuration Summary
   (Virtual Configuration Register: 0x2)
enabled are:
 [ 0 ] break/abort has effect
 [ 1 ] console baud: 9600
 boot: ...... image specified by the boot system commands or default to:
cisco2-
Cat6k-MSFC2

do you wish to change the configuration? y/n  [n]:

You must reset or power cycle for new config to take effect
rommon 6 > reset

>From here, the RP reset, then started autobooting, and didn't crash.
Seems like an adequate workaround.  I'm still curious about the
difference between the CatOS format of a filesystem, verses the IOS
format.  From what I've read, when you convert the switch to native
mode, the CatOS format of the sup-bootflash: and any external card
should be inaccessible from the native IOS.  Yet I'm able to look at
directories of those filesystems, and read/write files to them.  Is this
a new feature of IOS or CatOS, or the ROMMONs?  I do see a warning about
it:

00:00:49: %C6K_PLATFORM-SP-5-MISMATCH: 'sup-bootflash' device
programming algori
thm mismatch detected on SP (module: 1), formatting is recommended.
00:00:50: %C6K_PLATFORM-SP-5-MISMATCH: 'slot0' device programming
algorithm mism
atch detected on SP (module: 1), formatting is recommended.

I guess I should probably just do it to be safe...

My TAC case is SR 605801489, I'll update the engineer to the
progress/workaround.

Thanks again,

Chuck 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sukumar Subburayan [mailto:sukumars at cisco.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 2:51 PM
To: Church, Charles
Cc: nsp
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 6500 hybrid - native conversion crashes

Charles,

Ignoring the convertion procedure for a second, can you confirm if you
set the config register on RP to autoboot (0x2102) and then try booting
the image from SP rommon, whether you see the same crash?

We have seen issues with RP not booting at all  when autoboot is not set
and user tried to manually boot the image from RP rommon.

If you can unicast me the console login information for your lab setup,
I can take a look.

sukumar