[c-nsp] Moving Sup720 from cat6k to 7600

[Peter Rathlev]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:17 +0200, Gregoire Huet wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I would like to boot a Sup720-3BXL in a 7604 chassis, but it won't.
> 
> The sup was previously used in a cat6k chassis (as announced by the
> bootstrap), and even with a CompactFlash formatted on a running
> 7604/720-3BXL, the blade does not boot.
> 
> The compact flash is readable and a 'dir' shows the image, but booting 
> on it crashes after a while (there is just the ATA line displayed), and
> about 30 seconds after, it's returning to rommon with a weird message
> (that i can possibly report here if needed).
> 
> Is there a known trick to 'convert' the blade from cat6k to 76xx ?

You need at least 12.2(18)SXE for the 7604 chassis. What software
version is on the card now?

If it's the software, you can insert a flash card with the newer
software and boot from that.

Regards,
Peter