[c-nsp] c3660: Utterly baffled by ROMs

[Nicholas Linn]

Ted,

	Oh I have an image and it runs fine, to a degree.  I had upgraded
the flash memory in the unit and since I am working on a bit of a budget I
got cheaper after market stuff.  The problem is that my boot rom doesn't see
the flash properly.  So in order to run the correct image, I have to first
boot a smaller image from a PCMCIA card, at which point the flash can now be
seen, from there I need to do a "reload warm file xxxxxxxxx.bin" in order to
boot the image I really want.  In the end I am wasting about 12 megs on the
PCMCIA card for the second image, that could be put to far better use.  I
have been assured by the seller that the latest boot rom will see the flash
properly also having a tftp client from rommon would be nice too which I
understand some of the newer versions have. 

	I can find the boot-3600= (for the 3620 and 3640) in many places so
I don't think my question is unreasonable.

Thanks,
Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm at toybox.placo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 1:15 PM
To: Nicholas Linn
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] c3660: Utterly baffled by ROMs

Hi Nick,

  You don't ever upgrade the roms, at least, you don't unless you
like flushing money down the crapper for no reason.  The unit is
supposed to run from flash, the boot rom is only used to tell the
unit where the flash code is, then once the flash code is loaded
the unit never touches the rom again.

  If your saying that your unit boots and shows it's running from
rom, if you login to it and do a show ver, then that means that
whoever sold you the router wiped the flash - as they are supposed
to do if they sell one of these.  Just like people are supposed to
wipe off any copy of Windows that is on an old computer that they
sell.  Or, perhaps yours had a flash card originally that someone
removed.

  You need to contact Cisco and get a referral to a Cisco reseller
who will sell you a service contract for your unit.  Once you have
that then you can call Cisco and get the firmware you need.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Nicholas Linn
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:50 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] c3660: Utterly baffled by ROMs
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
>             I just bought myself a c3661 to play around with and 
> experiment
> on.   At any rate the machine is running bootstrap version 
> 12.0(5r) to which
> I want to upgrade to 12.0(6r)T or whatever the latest version is.  I have
> looked around and seem to be only able to find the upgrades for the
> 3620-3640.  Does anyone know who sells this or has a digital image that I
> can burn myself to a flash chip?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nick
> 
>  
> 
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