[c-nsp] Booting 7513 off ATA flash

[heh heh]

12.0S supports ATA disks and has done so for several years.

On 3/18/07, Corneliu Tanasa <ctanasa at i-net.ro> wrote:
>
> 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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