[c-nsp] 6506 SUP2/MSFC2 Native IOS upgrade issue

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Bryan wrote:

> - Greetings all, trying to upgrade the IOS on a SUP2/MSFC2 which is
> already in native move at 12.1(27b)E and trying to upgrade to 12.2.18
> but I keep seeing similar errors to this:
>
> - I uploaded the image to disk0: and set the following:
>
> boot system flash disk0:s222-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF9.bin
>
> - Upon reboot it won't boot from the disk, it shows:
>
> System Bootstrap, Version 7.1(1)
> Copyright (c) 1994-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> c6k_sup2 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
>
> Autoboot: failed, BOOT string is empty
> rommon 1 > boot disk0:
> string is disk0:s222-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF9.bin
>
> - so I get into rommon and i force it to boot from disk0: and it appears
> to load up just fine but then it just crashes and I see:

That's pretty much what the unit I posted about earlier today was doing. 
For the heck of it, could you post output from the following two commands?

sh bootvar
rem com sw sh bootvar

The crashing part is different.  Are you sure you have enough RAM on both 
the switch and msfc for the new code?

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