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

Deepak Jain deepak at ai.net
Fri Mar 7 16:39:19 EST 2008


Or a USB port if you don't want to write anything more advanced.

Whisper wrote:
> 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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