01-21-2009 05:17 AM - edited 03-06-2019 03:33 AM
I will be upgrading out Cisco 6509 IOS this weekend, and just wanted to ask a quick question to make sure that i have this right!
looking at the running configuration on the Cisco switch it shows the following
boot system flash sup-bootflash:c6sup22-js-mz.121-26.E6.bin
boot system bootflash:c6msfc2-dsv-mz.121-11b.E4.bin
boot bootldr bootflash:c6msfc2-boot-mz.121-11b.E4.bin
If i do a sh ver, on the switch, it shows that i am using sup-bootflash:c6sup22-js-mz.121-26.E6.bin".
We have bought some new PCIMA Cards, and was going to place the new IOS on these. I will be hoping to upgrade to 12.1(27b)E4.
If i do the following command with the IOS on the new flash cards will this boot up correctly?
boot system flash sup-bootflash:c6sup22-js-mz.121-27b.E4.bin
or should it be
boot system flash bootflash:c6sup22-js-mz.121-27b.E4.bin
Many thanks in advance, please let me know, so that i can ammed my plans
01-21-2009 05:21 AM
Marc
if you are putting the new IOS on a PCMCIA card then this will either be
slot
or
disk
you can identify which by typing "dir /all"
so lets assume it's disk0 you would then need to have
boot system flash disk0:c6sup22-js-mz.121-27b.E4.bin
and you need to make sure this is the first "boot system .." string in your running config.
Jon
01-21-2009 05:41 AM
Hi Jon
Thanks for the quick reply.
Its slot0
so i assume the its then boot system flash slot0:c6sup22-js-mz.121-27b.E4.bin
how do you make sure its the first in the boot system string? sorry if its obvilous question!
Thanks
marc
01-21-2009 05:44 AM
Marc
"so i assume the its then boot system flash slot0:c6sup22-js-mz.121-27b.E4.bin"
Correct.
"how do you make sure its the first in the boot system string? sorry if its obvilous question!"
copy the existing entries to notepad. Put your entry with slot0 at the top. Remove the entries from the running-config and then paste back in from notepad.
Jon
01-21-2009 05:49 AM
Many thanks Jon
I am sure its going to well, i'll let you know how it goes on monday
thanks
01-21-2009 05:53 AM
Marc
No problem. Hope it goes well.
Jon
01-25-2009 01:11 AM
Hi Jon
It failed ;-(
I put my new flash card in and typed in dir /all and it would not reconise that anything was in slot0! if i typed in dir disk0, it showed my IOS. Typing in dir flash, it said that there was an error.
Rather than muck around, i aborted the uprade.
the command of boot system flash disk0 wouldn't work. Any idea's?
01-25-2009 05:52 PM
Marc
Where and how did you format the new flash? If you formatted it on a non-6500 device that may explain why the 6500 could not read the new flash.
HTH
Rick
01-26-2009 01:28 AM
Hi Rick
Orginally i didn't format it on the 6500, but in the end i formatted it on the 6500 and copied the IOS on to it. But still no luck
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