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

[Bryan]

Thanks all for the suggestions.  It appears there are 2 fold problems. 
The previous engineer on this project informed me that the Sup2 was
upgraded to 256mb ram (it wasn't) and the MSFC was upgraded to 512 (it
wasn't).  I've got a sup2 w/ 128 and an MSFC w/ 256.

As for the boot variables:
6506#sh bootvar
BOOT variable = disk0:s222-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF9.bin
CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist
BOOTLDR variable =
Configuration register is 0x2102
Standby is not up.

6506#rem com sw sh bootvar
BOOT variable = disk0:s222-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF9.bin
CONFIG_FILE variable =
BOOTLDR variable =
Configuration register is 0x2102


I does appear that the confreg settings are being propagated but perhaps
the boot rom needs to be upgraded as well.



Thanks for the help,

Bryan

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Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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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