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65K image verified & bootvar all good - ROMMON

AJAZ NAWAZ
Level 5
Level 5

I am familiar with carrying out IOS upgrade procedure on 65K platform, but have come across one issue today. The boot system command points to disk0: image. The disk0: image has been checksummed & verified. Upon reload the switch ends up in rommon. when 'boot', is issued from rommon, the second image in the bootstring loads sucessfully.

6500_Catalyst#sh bootvar

BOOT variable = disk0:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin,12;sup-bootdisk:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF10.bin,1;

CONFIG_FILE variable =

BOOTLDR variable =

Configuration register is 0x2102

Standby is not present.

6500_Catalyst#

6500_Catalyst#dir disk0:

Directory of disk0:/

1 -rw- 80075300 Aug 17 2008 15:24:34 +01:00 s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin

512024576 bytes total (431947776 bytes free)

6500_Catalyst#

-------------------

boot system disk0:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin

boot system flash sup-bootdisk:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF10.bin

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6500_Catalyst#sh ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(18)SXF10, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Fri 13-Jul-07 07:59 by kellythw

Image text-base: 0x40101040, data-base: 0x42DB59F0

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(17r)S4, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

BOOTLDR: s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(18)SXF10, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

6500_Catalyst uptime is 31 minutes

Time since 6500_Catalyst switched to active is 30 minutes

System returned to ROM by reload at 18:13:07 UTC Mon Mar 17 2008 (SP by reload)

System restarted at 15:44:07 BST Sun Aug 17 2008

System image file is "sup-bootdisk:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF10.bin"

This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to United

States and local country laws governing import, export, transfer and

use. Delivery of Cisco cryptographic products does not imply

third-party authority to import, export, distribute or use encryption.

Importers, exporters, distributors and users are responsible for

compliance with U.S. and local country laws. By using this product you

agree to comply with applicable laws and regulations. If you are unable

to comply with U.S. and local laws, return this product immediately.

A summary of U.S. laws governing Cisco cryptographic products may be found at:

http://www.cisco.com/wwl/export/crypto/tool/stqrg.html

If you require further assistance please contact us by sending email to

export@cisco.com.

cisco WS-C6509-E (R7000) processor (revision 1.4) with 458720K/65536K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID SMC120400EU

SR71000 CPU at 600Mhz, Implementation 0x504, Rev 1.2, 512KB L2 Cache

Last reset from s/w reset

SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).

X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

Bridging software.

TN3270 Emulation software.

31 Virtual Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

170 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

1917K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

8192K bytes of packet buffer memory.

65536K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 512K).

Configuration register is 0x2102

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any known fix?

Ajaz

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Hi recently i faced this issue with 6504-E.

When i used "show version" confreg = 0x2102

I used command "remote command switch show version " and found that confreg = 0x2100.

I went to ROMMON is issued command confreg 0x2102 and "reset".

Then it booted normally , again i tried reloading, so it resolved.

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Mark Yeates
Level 7
Level 7

Ajaz,

You should try upgrading the rommon especially the SP. There have been some known booting issues with older rommon versions. I had this problem a while back and upgrading the rommon fixed the issue.

HTH,

Mark

Hmm.. I hear what you're saying but we have multiple 65K cores switches with same bootrom version - with no issues.

I'm seeing this behaviour occur on this single Cat only.

Might have to be one for TAC. Could well be HW issue.

Ajaz

just put a \ after boot0: and before the image name.

its either a "/" or a "\"

I could potentially give that a shot but the '/' would point to the contents within a directory structure. In this case we have the extracted image available directly on disk0. I'm doing nothing different here to what we have across all 65K's. Here's the config from another chassis, it's a working example:

hostname core05

!

boot-start-marker

boot system flash disk0:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin

boot system sup-bootflash:s72033-pk9s-mz.122-18.SXD4.bin

core05#show bootvar

BOOT variable = disk0:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin,1;sup-bootflash:s72033-pk9s-mz.122-18.SXD4.bin,12;

CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist

BOOTLDR variable =

Configuration register is 0x2102

Standby is not present

core05#

core05#sh ver

Cisco IOS Software, s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(33)SXH2a, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Fri 25-Apr-08 08:59 by prod_rel_team

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(17r)S2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

core05 uptime is 3 weeks, 1 day, 14 hours, 40 minutes

Uptime for this control processor is 3 weeks, 1 day, 14 hours, 38 minutes

Time since dcscore01 switched to active is 3 weeks, 1 day, 14 hours, 38 minutes

System returned to ROM by s/w reset at 19:49:38 BST Sun Jul 27 2008 (SP by power-on)

System restarted at 19:52:30 BST Sun Jul 27 2008

System image file is "disk0:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin"

This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to United

States and local country laws governing import, export, transfer and

use. Delivery of Cisco cryptographic products does not imply

third-party authority to import, export, distribute or use encryption.

Importers, exporters, distributors and users are responsible for

compliance with U.S. and local country laws. By using this product you

agree to comply with applicable laws and regulations. If you are unable

to comply with U.S. and local laws, return this product immediately.

A summary of U.S. laws governing Cisco cryptographic products may be found at:

http://www.cisco.com/wwl/export/crypto/tool/stqrg.html

If you require further assistance please contact us by sending email to

export@cisco.com.

cisco WS-C6509-E (R7000) processor (revision 1.1) with 458720K/65536K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID SMG0919N4YU

SR71000 CPU at 600Mhz, Implementation 0x504, Rev 1.2, 512KB L2 Cache

Last reset from power-on

12 Virtual Ethernet interfaces

218 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

1917K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

8192K bytes of packet buffer memory.

65536K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 512K).

Configuration register is 0x2102

bye for now

Ajaz

Check to see if the config register is correct on the supervisor processor when it is in rommon. there is a supervisor register and a msfc register . I have seen where it was incorrect right from the factory on the supervisor side , thus it never passes the load on to the msfc to finish loading.

i'd buy into that possibility, however, i built these boxes from new, loaded the code no problem and rebooted (soft&hard) multiple times before they were deployed onto production network.

Could there be an issue if the compact flash was swapped - anybody?

This is one occasion I could really do with high touch 65K hw folk input from brux

Ajaz

Hi recently i faced this issue with 6504-E.

When i used "show version" confreg = 0x2102

I used command "remote command switch show version " and found that confreg = 0x2100.

I went to ROMMON is issued command confreg 0x2102 and "reset".

Then it booted normally , again i tried reloading, so it resolved.

Wow!

check this:

CORE02#remote command switch show version

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) s72033_sp Software (s72033_sp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(18)SXF10, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Fri 13-Jul-07 08:06 by kellythw

Image text-base: 0x40101040, data-base: 0x414749F0

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 8.4(2) Release

BOOTLDR: s72033_sp Software (s72033_sp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(18)SXF10, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

CORE02 uptime is 1 day, 21 hours, 44 minutes

Time since RET5SLCORE02 switched to active is 1 day, 21 hours, 44 minutes

System returned to ROM by reload at 15:41:16 BST Sun Aug 17 2008

System restarted at 15:43:07 BST Sun Aug 17 2008

System image file is "bootdisk:s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF10.bin"

cisco Catalyst 6000 (R7000) processor with 458720K/65536K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID SMC120400EU

SR71000 CPU at 600Mhz, Implementation 0x504, Rev 1.2, 512KB L2 Cache

Last reset from s/w reset

X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

170 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

1917K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

8192K bytes of packet buffer memory.

500472K bytes of Internal ATA PCMCIA card (Sector size 512 bytes).

Configuration register is 0x2100

CORE02#

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Now this reply makes complete sense. How this core ended up like this is beyond me. Will try out of course and submit rating accordingly.

good.

Ajaz

All sorted now.

thank you very much Satish.

Ajaz

Thats exactly what I was talking about the supervisor config register was incorrect, couldn't remember the command to show it though. They can come thru from the facory like this , have seen it more than once....

right glen ...!!!

even i had faced this problem for SUP720...but for me, SUP was earlier working fine, problem came when i tried to upgrade the IOS..then i found this command.

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