[c-nsp] ios roulette blues (6500/7600 SXF)

[Sukumar Subburayan]

Yes, RP rommon code does get executed. As a matter of fact, you would see 
a Rommon bootup banner for RP as the SP passes control to RP.

Rommon code needs to be executed to intialize various things in IOS, 
before we can continue booting the image.

sukumar




On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Robert Boyle wrote:
>
>>> Am I correct in assuming there's no reason to mess with the rom-monitor
>>> code on the RP?
>>
>> We also upgrade the RP as a matter of course.
>
> My understanding of the sup720 boot process is that the switch boots
> first, then loads the real IOS and passes control to the MSFC.  Would rp
> rom-mon code ever actually get executed?
>
> Is c6msfc3-rm2.srec.122-17r.SX5 what you put on the rp rom-mon?
>
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