[c-nsp] cisco 6509 rommon mode

[Kevin Loch]

Have you tried replacing the lithium battery on the sup2?
Hopefully you have a newer board with a socket.

- Kevin

ambedkar wrote:
> Hi, i cleaned the modules of 6509 and reinstalled, it shows
> 
> 
> inband gmac link did not come up: reseting the system
> System Bootstrap, Version 7.1(1)
> Copyright (c) 1994-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> c6k_sup2 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory
> 
> Autoboot executing command: "boot bootflash:"
> 
> Self decompressing the image : ##############################################################################################################]
> 
> 
> System Power On Diagnostics
> DRAM Size ..........................256 MB
> Testing DRAM .......................Passed
> Verifying Text Segment .............Passed
> NVRAM Size .........................512 KB
> Level2 Cache .......................Present
> Level3 Cache .......................Present
> System Power On Diagnostics Complete
> 
> Currently running ROMMON from S (Gold) region
> Boot image: bootflash:cat6000-sup2cvk9.8-3-2.bin
> 
> System Bootstrap, Version 7.1(1)
> Copyright (c) 1994-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> 
> Warning: Rommon NVRAM area is corrupted. Initialize the area to default values
> c6k_sup2 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory
> 
> Autoboot: failed, BOOT string is empty
> rommon 1 >
> rommon 1 >
> 
> After this, if i execute the command BOOT, once again it is showing old log as below.
> 
> thanks, bye.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi, i am using cisco 6509 switch. This switch is not power ON for last one year, now after switch ON,It is going to ROMMON mode.
> 
> 
> The following is the log:
> 
> Currently running ROMMON from S (Gold) region
> Boot image: bootflash:cat6000-sup2cvk9.8-3-2.bin
> Module 1 port ASIC 0 failed: Pinnacle Packet Buffer Error
> Module 1 reported following ports unusable
> port 1 bad
> port 2 bad
> port 3 bad
> port 4 bad
> inband gmac link did not come up: reseting the system
> System Bootstrap, Version 7.1(1)
> Copyright (c) 1994-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> c6k_sup2 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory
> 
> Autoboot executing command: "boot bootflash:cat6000-sup2cvk9.8-3-2.bin"
> 
> Self decompressing the image : ##############################################################################################################]
> 
> 
> System Power On Diagnostics
> DRAM Size ..........................256 MB
> Testing DRAM .......................Passed
> Verifying Text Segment .............Passed
> NVRAM Size .........................512 KB
> Level2 Cache .......................Present
> Level3 Cache .......................Present
> System Power On Diagnostics Complete.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I tried the following commands:
> 1.boot
> 2.boot bootflash:cat6000-sup2cvk9.8-3-2.bin
> 3.I thought ios may be damaged, so i used XMODEM to upload IOS image, but after some time, it is also failing.
> 
> please help me,
> Thanks.bye
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