[c-nsp] "Boot helper" or small IOS for Catalyst 3750

[Whisper]

Even a very small basic boot image would help.

Something that was 1MB in size, would save a lot of time

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Justin Shore <justin at justinshore.com> wrote:

> Peter Rathlev wrote:
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:10 -0600, Justin Shore wrote:
> >> I don't believe xmodem transfer have been necessary beginning with the
> >> Cat 3550s or there abouts.  The last xmodem I had to do was on a 2900XL
> >> but nothing more recent than that.  rommon should be able to do TFTP
> >> transfers beginning with the 3550s.
> >
> > Strange, I don't have any TFTP-related commands when I boot into ROMMON.
> > I tried after a reboot with 12.2(25)SEE2 and 12.2(35)SE5, just to see if
> > they'd upgrade the ROMMON.
>
> Hey Peter.  Guess what I'm doing this morning?  Xmodem recovery on a
> pair of switches that failed an upgrade with the archive command.  Woo
> hoo!  What a way to waste a morning.  I haven't done this in years.
>
> Come on Cisco, at least give us removable flash if we can't get a rommon
> with IP support...  :-(
>
> Justin
>
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