[c-nsp] Booting 7513 off ATA flash

[Corneliu Tanasa]

I'll suggest to do the following to bypass this issue:

1. install in slot0: a standard pcmcia flash card with some basic IOS that
is aware of ATA FLASH disks (12.2.x at minimum).  
2. install in disk1: your ATA DISK.  Put here the desired image to load
3. in global configuration mode instruct your router to boot first from the
disk1: device.
4. save & reload

This should help you to bypass the issue.  The RSP will be unable to boot
first from disk1:, but he will boot from slot0: the basic image, then the
IOS will determine from the config that it has to boot the image from disk1:
so he will continue the booting process with the right image.

This scenario is working fine for me with both RSP4 and RSP4+.

Cheers,
Corneliu

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Rodney Dunn
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:17 PM
To: David Coulson
Cc: cisco-nsp
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Booting 7513 off ATA flash

Not sure then.

Try to reformat the flash disk and copy the image again.

The timing issue was the only thing I knew of.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:45:12AM -0400, David Coulson wrote:
> Still just boots into the bootldr image.
> 
> *Mar 16 10:42:49: %SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested
> 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"
> 
> 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
> 
> Found bootloader image - bootflash:rsp-boot-mz.122-27.bin
> boot: cannot determine first file name on device "slot0:"
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Self decompressing the image :
> #################################################### [OK]
> 
>               Restricted Rights Legend
> 
> Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is
> subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph
> (c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted
> Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph
> (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer
> Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.
> 
>            cisco Systems, Inc.
>            170 West Tasman Drive
>            San Jose, California 95134-1706
> 
> 
> 
> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> IOS (tm) RSP Software (RSP-BOOT-M), Version 12.2(27), RELEASE SOFTWARE
(fc3)
> Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Tue 02-Nov-04 18:01 by kellmill
> Image text-base: 0x40010948, data-base: 0x4099C000
> 
> cisco RSP4+ (R5000) processor with 262144K/2072K bytes of memory.
> R5000 CPU at 200Mhz, Implementation 35, Rev 2.1, 512KB L2 Cache
> Last reset from power-on
> G.703/E1 software, Version 1.0.
> G.703/JT2 software, Version 1.0.
> X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
> Primary Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.
> Chassis Interface.
> 3 VIP2 R5K controllers (1 FastEthernet)(12 T1)(2 Channelized T3).
> 1 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> 2 Channelized T3 port(s)
> 123K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> 
> 20480K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
> 125952K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 1 (Sector size 512 bytes).
> 8192K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
> No slave installed in slot 6.
> 
> 
> Press RETURN to get started!
> 
> 
> *Mar 16 10:44:28: %SYS-6-BOOTTIME: Time taken to reboot after reload =
> 6653 seconds
> *Mar 16 10:44:31: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface
> FastEthernet12/0/0, changed state to up
> 
> User Access Verification
> 
> Username: david
> Password:
> 
> core-ar1(boot)>
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