[j-nsp] Booting from PCMCIA M7i

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Abdul 2012 wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have created a booting media with PCMCIA card for my m7i router through
> the following procedure

It sounds like you need to format the card before using it.  Note - I've 
only tried this using compact flash cards, so things like disk geometry 
could be different on a PCMCIA card.

Check out the link below for some options.  Much of this is likely not 
Juniper approved, and I take no responsibility whatsoever for whatever you 
do to your rotuer as a result.

http://serverfault.com/questions/24653/can-i-use-third-party-compact-flash-in-a-juniper-m10i-router

Specifically, look at the next-to-last comment from the bottom.

jms

> user1 at 3-1> start shell
> %
> %
> % cd /var/tmp
> % pwd
> /var/tmp
> %
> %
> %
> % ls
> install-media-10.4R8.5-domestic vi.recover
> sampled.pkts
> %
> % su
> root at 3G-1% dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad3 count=20
> ad3: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
> ad3: start 256, end 374783, size 374528
> ad3c: start 0, end 374527, size 374528
> ad3s1: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
> ad3s1: start 256, end 374783, size 374528
> ad3s1c: start 0, end 374527, size 374528
> ad3s2: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
> ad3s2: start 375040, end 749567, size 374528
> ad3s2c: start 0, end 374527, size 374528
> ad3s3: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
> ad3s3: start 749568, end 1748991, size 999424
> ad3s3c: start 0, end 999423, size 999424
> ad3s4: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset
> ad3s4: start 1748992, end 2000895, size 251904
> ad3s4c: start 0, end 251903, size 251904
> 20+0 records in
> 20+0 records out
> 10240 bytes transferred in 0.057968 secs (176649 bytes/sec)
>
> root at 3G-1% dd if=install-media-10.4R8.5-domestic of=/dev/ad3 bs=64k
> dscheck(ad3): b_bcount 13383 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512)
> dd: /dev/ad3: Invalid argument
> 5630+1 records in
> 5630+0 records out
> 368967680 bytes transferred in 361.656024 secs (1020217 bytes/sec)
> root at 3G-1%
>
>
> When I try to boot my router from this PCMCIA card I stuck in the
> following:
>
>
>
> Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, An Energy Star Ally
> Copyright (C) 1984-98, Award Software, Inc.
>
> BIOS Version 1.8
> 09/18/2003-i440BX-SMC67X-2A69TU00C-00
>
> Will try to boot from :
> PCMCIA ATA Flash Card
> Compact Flash
> Primary IDE Hard Disk
> Ethernet
> Boot Sequence is reseted due to a PowerUp
>
> Trying to Boot from PCMCIA ATA Flash Card
> CD Loader 1.00
>
>              uilding the boot loader arguments
>                                               8172
> 3629
> 4411
> locating the loader and the BTX
>
>
>
>
> What does that mean? Is there any wrong thing with my procedure?
>
> Regards,
> Abdullah
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