[c-nsp] 4500X weird issue...

[Jeff Kell]

Follow-up to the follow-up :)  Long story short...

Switch essentially "had no flash" and dir, etc gave errors.  TAC had us
boot from tftp image via ROMMON.  Booted up, found config, write mem
worked, founds it's VSS partner, and dropped to standby.  Rebooted the
other switch, this one became primary, and all is well.

Still don't understand why even ROMMON couldn't find a flash, yet tftp
booting IOS seemed to make everything well again.  But not looking a
gift horse in the mouth, just wondering in case this shows up again.  I
really don't like the "restart breaking things" scenario :)

Jeff

On 12/10/2013 8:45 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:
> Follow-up...  the secondary booted up OK.  We're looking at a possible
> RMA on the failing one (TAC case open) rather than cracking the case on
> a virgin switch to mess with flash :).
>
> Jeff
>
> On 12/6/2013 11:25 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:
>> We received our first pair of 4500X switches, and proceeded to try to
>> prepare them for deployment.  They came up OK on console access, we got
>> a very basic configuration setup, linked them together, and did an
>> initial VSS pairing.
>>
>> With that successful, we put in a management IP address for the
>> management port, saved everything, and proceeded to move them to the
>> server room.
>>
>> Upon power-up at the new location, they won't boot...
>>
>>>  ****************************************************************
>>>  *                                                              *
>>>  * Rom Monitor NVRAM configuration is being initialized to      *
>>>  * default values. This may be because it was never initialized.*
>>>  *                                                              *
>>>  ****************************************************************
>>> Writing to Primary Region failed
>>> Writing to Backup Region failed
>>>