[c-nsp] Insufficient memory to boot image on 827?

Steve Edmonson steve.j.edmonson at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 03:46:10 EDT 2010


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Billy Guthrie <bg at billyguthrie.com> wrote:
> Steve
>
> unless some odd memory allocation is occurring and based on what you
> provided, then you do not have enough
> memory to load the image. One thing to take in consideration is that the
> images are compressed, so during the boot
> process the router will decompress the image and if you do not have enough
> memory, it will obviously fail to boot.
> You say that you are running the 12.4(5C), but what feature set (IP/FW, IP
> Plus, IP)? Take note, that if you are
> trying to boot the IP PUS image this is what is more than likely causing
> your issue. This image requires at least 32MB
> of RAM to boot. What is the file name that you copied to flash?

When the image is booting, it uncompresses OK. The insufficient memory
error does not appear until later in the boot process.I am trying to
use the IP feature set. As you say, the other images require more
memory than this 827 has. The file name was c820-y6-mz.124-5c.bin.

Thanks for the reply
Steve


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