[c-nsp] old 6509 trying to drive me insane :-)

[Blake Dunlap]

You realize that sup will not do ip6 in hardware right?

-Blake


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Joe Pruett <joey at q7.com> wrote:

> trying to bring ipv6 to an older 6509 system (sup2/msfc2). it currently
> runs 12.1. 12.2 has v6 in it, but the image is too big to go into
> bootflash. so i grabbed some pcmcia cards and dropped the image on
> there. so far so good, but the failover sup2 has too old of a rommon on
> it (6.1(4)) and can't see disk0. luckily that is new enough that it can
> have new rommon flashed, but the 12.2 images i can get don't support
> disk0 either, which seems very odd to me. so i think that maybe it needs
> a boot loader. but even worse is that the 12.2 rommon thinks that
> bootflash is corrupt. i even tried xmodem'ing the boot image over, but
> as usually happens with xmodem, i never got it to fly.
>
> so, i'm hoping someone here can provide one of the following:
>
> 1. old 7.1 rommon image i can flash
> 2. clue about why the newest 12.2 rommon doesn't see disk0 as a dev, and
> thinks bootflash is corrupt
> 3. a way to get cisco to stop making things so complicated :-)
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