[c-nsp] Cat6500 sup2 boot from PCMCIA

Fri Dec 12 13:58:17 EST 2008

Hi Charles, I really appreciate your time.
I Have two PCMCIA cards:

        - ATA FLASH Card Viking 48MB
        - ATA FLASH Card SanDisk 48MB

Thanks again.
David

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Church, Charles [mailto:cchurc05 at harris.com]
Enviado el: Viernes, 12 de Diciembre de 2008 01:54 p.m.
Para: David Lima
CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Asunto: RE: [c-nsp] Cat6500 sup2 boot from PCMCIA

Is it a 64MB card?  If so, use 'disk0' in place of 'slot0'.

Chuck Church
Principal Network Engineer, CCIE #8776
Harris Information Technology Services
EDS Contractor - Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI)
1210 N. Parker Rd. | Greenville, SC 29609
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Lima [mailto:David.Lima at alphasys.com.bo]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:47 PM
To: Church, Charles
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Cat6500 sup2 boot from PCMCIA

Thanks a lot Charles for your response. I tried your suggestion but when I boot from my slot0:IOS_IMAGE I have a bad file magic number error.
Do I missing anything in the Rommon configuration?
        Rommon>boot slot0:IOS_IMAGE
Thanks again Charles.
David.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Church, Charles [mailto:cchurc05 at harris.com]
Enviado el: Viernes, 12 de Diciembre de 2008 01:40 p.m.
Para: David Lima
CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Asunto: RE: [c-nsp] Cat6500 sup2 boot from PCMCIA

I think you can format the card (if it's the 64MB ATA card) in a PC running Windows, use FAT16 filesystem.  Copy the image to the card, and try to boot it from ROMMON.  Once running, you'll need to format the card in IOS (so the MONLIB (kind of like a boot sector) is put on there).  Then you can use Windows to copy the file again to the card (but don't format it again, obviously).  Then I think it should auto-boot.  If it's less than 64MB, I don't think Windows can recognize it as a disk drive without special drivers, which may or may not exist.  Make sure your ROMMON version is 7.1(1) if it is a 64MB card, can't recognize it without.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Lima
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:08 PM
To: Scott McGrath; Teller, Robert
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cat6500 sup2 boot from PCMCIA

Hi again, just one question. Is there a way to format the PCMCIA card from another device (A router or a PC). It because I don't have any othr supervisor2 to do this. It could be compatible?
Thanks for any suggestión.

David

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Scott McGrath [mailto:mcgrath at fas.harvard.edu]
Enviado el: Viernes, 12 de Diciembre de 2008 11:16 a.m.
Para: Teller, Robert
CC: David Lima; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Asunto: Re: [c-nsp] Cat6500 sup2 boot from PCMCIA

You can boot a sup2 from TFTP in ROMMON

Teller, Robert wrote:
> I ran into a similar problem and had to RMA a new sup/cf card from
> cisco.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Lima
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 7:41 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Cat6500 sup2 boot from PCMCIA
>
> Hi all, I have a Cat6500 x6k-sup2-2ge running an IOS software.
>
> My problem is that I'm stuck in rommon mode after the IOS upgrade. Now I
> have A PCMCIA and I want to boot the new IOS from the PCMCIA.
>
> I cannot format the PCMCIA from the rommon mode.
>
> How can I format the PCMCIA? The only way is format from the target
> Catatalyst switch?
>
> All these because I have an error about invalid magic number when I
> insert the PCMCIA card into the Supervisor2 slot in rommon mode.
>
> Please I need your help,
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> David
>
>
>
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