[j-nsp] Booting from PCMCIA M7i

[Juniper Maillist]

Justin,

I have already followed the link which you posted and formatted the card but it did not help. I am using SanDisk CF card with PCMCIA adapter. 

BR//
Abdullah

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On May 1, 2012, at 12:31 AM, "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner at cluebyfour.org> wrote:

> 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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