[j-nsp] issue with internal flash upgrade kit on M7i

[Hahn, Ch]

Hello list,

many thanks for the quick and helpful reponses. I really appreciate it :)
There were different suggestions in the mails and I did the following:

I checked the bootvars:

root at redhorn% sysctl machdep.bootdevs
machdep.bootdevs: pcmcia-flash,compact-flash,disk,lan
root at redhorn% sysctl machdep.nextbootdev
machdep.nextbootdev: pcmcia-flash

This looks ok to me, CF is on the second postition and disk on the third, so the router should try the CF before it tries the HD.

Then I checked the CF with the hidden diag command:

chh at redhorn> request chassis routing-engine diagnostics compact-flash 
Found following device in system boot messages
ad0: 245MB <SanDisk SDCFB-256> [980/16/32] at ata0-master PIO4
/dev/ad0s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1a: clean, 91780 free (12 frags, 11471 blocks, 0.0%
fragmentation)
- -> Reading files from /dev/ad0s1a (/altroot)
/dev/ad0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1e: clean, 12309 free (13 frags, 1537 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
- -> Reading files from /dev/ad0s1e (/altconfig)
- -> Compact flash passed the read test.

This looks also ok to me, but what confuses me is that the CF only has two slices that look like backups (/altroot, /altconfig). So it seems to me there is no bootable system on the CF.
As I understand it from the imstall instructions that came with the CF, the recommended "request system snapshot partition" should do that and copy the running system on the CF and not only a backup.
Any ideas or hints?

thanks in advance,
Christian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Reynolds [mailto:harry at juniper.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:40 PM
> To: Hahn, Christian; juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [j-nsp] issue with internal flash upgrade kit on M7i
> 
> Any chance you can open a support case?  My understanding is 
> that this should have "just worked". A customer should not 
> need to be messing with sysctl directly. I assume the flash 
> media is good, given that the snapshot seemed to work. There 
> is a hidden command to test RE media; this command is hidden 
> as it may cause issues in production networks, so you are 
> advised to use such commands under JTAC guidance:
> 
> jnpr at foo> request chassis routing-engine diagnostics ?
> Possible completions:
>   <[Enter]>            Execute this command
>   all                  Run all diagnostics
>   compact-flash        Run compact flash diagnostics
>   hard-disk            Run hard disk diagnostics
>   memory               Run memory diagnostics
>   |                    Pipe through a command
> 
> Note that is the media is missing from the boot list you will 
> not be able to perform diags on it.
> 
> 
> 
> HTHs
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Hahn, Ch
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 6:34 AM
> > To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [j-nsp] issue with internal flash upgrade kit on M7i
> > 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I've just purchased the media upgrade kit for an M7i and 
> installed the 
> > flash disk internally on the RE. Then I followed the installation 
> > instructions manual and did a "request systems snapshot partition" 
> > which finished without errors and rebooted the router as 
> described in 
> > the manual.
> > But the router still boots from the internal HD. Every time 
> I log in I 
> > can see a message that it is running from alternate media device 
> > /dev/ad1s1a. The internal flash card is shown as ad0 in 
> "show system 
> > boot-messages".
> > 
> > I repeated the installation procedure but nothing changes. 
> > Now I'm a little bit lost and don't know how to tell the 
> router to use 
> > ad0 (internal flash) as boot media. Can anybody give me a hint what 
> > went wrong or what to do?
> > 
> > best regards,
> > Christian Hahn
> > 
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