[c-nsp] need help about switch cisco 4 9 4 8

Justin Shore justin at justinshore.com
Fri Apr 17 16:09:09 EDT 2009


I've learned to always specify the full path to the image you want to 
load.  It's safer than assuming that rommon will find the image on its 
own on the assortment of drives that the newer, larger devices have 
these days.

Justin

Paul Zugnoni wrote:
> fwiw, (nearly 2 months later) on our 4948:
> "boot system flash cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-31.SGA8.bin" with a
> config-register of 0x2102 resulted in the switch booting into rommon mode,
> with an error message on the console that the device was not specified.
> 
> Upon removing that configuration statement and replacing it with the
> following one, the 4948 booted as expected:
> boot system flash bootflash:cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-31.SGA8.bin   << notice
> the specification of bootflash: in front of the image name.



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