[c-nsp] 4GE-SFP-LC ROMMON upgrade in IOS-XR

[Lee Starnes]

Thanks Marc and everyone.

I was hoping not to have to revert back to get this working, but looks like
that is the path we will have to take.

-Lee

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Marc Binderberger <marc at sniff.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > Do you have one 12K running regular IOS ? I would try to do the upgrade
> > there and also confirm that the LC has in fact 1GB of mem.
>
> Indeed, that's what I did, some 12.0(32)... IOS version worked for me.
> Alternatively IOX before 3.8.0 .
>
> If I recall right then Engine3 with 1GB Ram and older Rommon is not
> booting up at all; I downgraded memory to 512M, then upgraded the Rommon
> (via older IOX or via IOS) and then installed the 1GB again.
>
>
> Regards, Marc
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lee Starnes
> > Sent: sábado, 28 de Maio de 2011 00:20
> > To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [c-nsp] 4GE-SFP-LC ROMMON upgrade in IOS-XR
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have an upgrade problem that there seems to be no fix for. Has anyone
> run
> > into this before and if so, how do you go about getting it to upgrade?
> Our
> > problem is this. We need to install some 4GE-SFC-LC cards in an IOS-XR
> > chassis. They won't work unless they have 1G of ram. You can't get the
> card
> > to see more than 512M of ram without doing a ROMMON upgrade (Guess my
> cards
> > have an older version). IOS-XR won't bring the cards online to be able to
> do
> > the ROMMON upgrade because not enough ram, but you can't get enough ram
> in
> > it without upgrading ROMMON.
> >
> > We are running V 4.0.1 of XR currently with both PRPs running 1.24
> ROMMON.
> > Is there any way to get around this issue.
> >
> > I did several searches for upgrading ROMMON on LCs for XR but could not
> find
> > anything that mentioned this kind of issue.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Lee
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