[c-nsp] Booting 7513 off ATA flash

[David Coulson]

This box has a RSP4+ in it, which appears to behave differently to 
regular RSP4s, probably because the bootstrap knows what a ATA flash 
card is.

Typically, I'll 'boot bootldr' the boot image off linear flash (slot0), 
then 'boot system' the image off ata flash (disk1). Tried that on this 
box - No go. Weird thing is, I can boot SOME images off the flash using 
this configuration, just not the ones I want :-) I'm not sure what the 
difference is to be honest - Anything that doesn't work always gives the 
same error message. The fact that I can boot from the rommon confuses me 
even more. Am I just missing something really obvious?

System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(10r)S1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.

SLOT 7 RSP is system master
RSP4 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0xffffffff
trouble reading device magic number
loadprog: error - on file open
boot: cannot load "disk1:rsp-ik91sv-mz.122-25.S12.bin"

rommon 1 > dir disk1:
open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0xffffffff
trouble reading device magic number
dir: cannot open device "disk1:"
rommon 2 > dir disk0:
device does not contain a valid magic number
dir: cannot open device "disk0:"
rommon 3 > dir slot0:
device does not contain a valid magic number
dir: cannot open device "slot0:"

rommon 4 > reset

System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(10r)S1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.

telnet> send brk

SLOT 7 RSP is system master
RSP4 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory


monitor: command "boot" aborted due to user interrupt
rommon 1 >
rommon 1 > dir disk1:
Directory of disk1:

2      12331620  -rw-     rsp-pv-mz.122-29.bin
3013    21989608  -rw-     rsp-ik91sv-mz.122-25.S12.bin
rommon 2 >

Okay - So, the IOS image is on disk1:, but it won't boot off it. No idea 
why. I've got a different system loader on my other 7500s, but they boot 
just fine. Usually I do this:

boot-start-marker
boot system disk1:rsp-ik91sv-mz.122-25.S12.bin
boot bootldr slot0:rsp-boot-mz.124-7a.bin
boot-end-marker

rommon 1 > dir disk1:
Directory of disk1:

2      12331620  -rw-     rsp-pv-mz.122-29.bin
3013    21989608  -rw-     rsp-ik91sv-mz.122-25.S12.bin
rommon 2 > boot disk1:rsp-ik91sv-mz.122-25.S12.bin

monitor: command "eboot" not found
rommon 3 > boot disk1:rsp-ik91sv-mz.122-25.S12.bin
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
Self decompressing the image : 
############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################# 
[OK]

%SYS-4-CONFIG_NEWER: Configuration from version 12.2 may not be 
correctly understood
%SYS-6-BOOT_MESSAGES: Messages above this line are from the boot loader.
Self decompressing the image : 
##################################################################################################################################################################################################### 
[OK]

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