[c-nsp] Booting 7513 off ATA flash

[David Coulson]

Rodney Dunn wrote:
> What type of disk is it?

Cisco branded ATA flash.

> 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.

Hrm, interesting - Sounds right.

>>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?

Mostly - I was booting my boot image off slot0: rather than bootflash -
Guess I can try it that way instead.

core-ar1#show bootflash:
-#- ED ----type---- --crc--- -seek-- nlen -length-
---------date/time--------- name
1   .. image        C063931C  5B32CC   21  5714508 Sep 11 2001 05:20:52
-04:00 rsp-boot-mz.120-13.S5
2   .. crashinfo    91486571  5EE1F8   25   241321 Apr 25 2002 10:06:13
-04:00 crashinfo_20020425-140613
3   .. crashinfo    A6CF697D  625F6C   25   228595 Apr 25 2002 11:47:05
-04:00 crashinfo_20020425-154705

1417364 bytes available (6184812 bytes used)

That's what's in my bootflash - How do I tell it to boot the bootflash
first?