[c-nsp] 6500 autoboot intermittent failures

[Jared Mauch]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:50:14PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> While testing out some sup720 upgrade parts, I've run into something 
> strange.  About 10% of the time, after a reload, I'll get the following 
> behavior:
> 
> I see from 
> http://cio.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/rommon/OL_5631.html
> that there was a similar sounding issue fixed in sp rom-mon 8.5(1) where 
> booting from a 512MB CF might fail.  Is 512MB the largest size CF cards we 
> should be trying to use in the sup720-3bxl?

	Dare i ask..

	Did you format the flash card so it has the correct 'monlib'
for booting from?

Router#show disk0 all
-#- --length-- -----date/time------ path

884932608 bytes available (139591680 bytes used)

******** ATA Flash Card Geometry/Format Info ********

ATA CARD GEOMETRY
   Number of Heads:       16    
   Number of Cylinders    1986  
   Sectors per Cylinder   63    
   Sector Size            512   
   Total Sectors          2001888

ATA CARD FORMAT
   Number of FAT Sectors  245   
   Sectors Per Cluster    32    
   Number of Clusters     62532 
   Number of Data Sectors 2001690
   Base Root Sector       625   
   Base FAT Sector        135   
   Base Data Sector       657   

ATA MONLIB INFO
   Image Monlib size = 73144
   Disk monlib size = 69120
   Name = c7200-atafslib-m
   Monlib Start sector = 2
   Monlib End sector = 128
   Monlib updated by = s72033_sp-IPSERVICESK9-M12.2(18)SXF
   Monlib version = 1

RFS VERSION :
Negotiated Version                  : 0
Highest version supported in Server : 0
Highest version supported in Client : 0

	- Jared

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