[c-nsp] Cisco 7206VXR

[Jason Berenson]

Sidney,

Without the PAs it does the same thing up until it tells me how much 
memory it has, then it scrolls this non stop:

monitor: command "boot abo
mon

-Jason

Sidney Boumendil wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Jason Berenson <jason at pins.net> wrote:
>   
>> Sidney,
>>
>>  I already got the G1 replaced, it's working.  I have an NPE-400 in a VXR
>> chassis that was running fine with 12.3.x until I put 12.4.19 on it.  It
>> starts the boot process, shows the version of bootstrap (12.2.x) then shows
>> the amount of memory (256M) then does this:
>>
>>  rommon>
>>  rommon>
>>  rommon>
>>  rommon>
>>  rommon>
>>  rommon>
>>  ...
>>
>>  It keeps scrolling rommon as if I had the enter key depressed.  It even
>> does this if I put a flash card in the controller card with JUST 12.3.x IOS
>> on it.  I've tried a few different controller cards a few different console
>> cables and a few different computers.  I'm running out of options.  I was
>> told to try upgrading to 12.4.22 but that version isn't on cisco's site.
>> When I call them they insist I need a smartnet contract before I can speak
>> to an engineer.  They won't provide the new IOS.
>>  Any ideas?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Jason
>>     
>
> What's happening if you boot the chassis without any PA inserted
> (remember OIR ie hot swap of PA is not supported on 7200 platform)?
>
> Sidney
>