[c-nsp] Booting 7513 off ATA flash

[Rodney Dunn]

What type of disk is it?

There were some issues where we would issue a request to disk
and they wouldn't return quick enough and that would cause problems.

CSCee94566
Internally found severe defect: Closed (C)
Image list misaligned in Cisco ATA flash,causing boot failure

That will not be fixed because the rommon needs changing and the 75xx's
are not field upgradeable.

>From what I remember though that only happened if you tried to boot
directly from rommon. If you had a valid boot image in bootflash
and it loaded first this problem wasn't seen.

Is that how you did it?

Rodney

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:40PM -0400, David Coulson wrote:
> 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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