cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
cancel
1610
Views
0
Helpful
2
Replies

SUP2 not booting

pmarques
Level 1
Level 1

Hi,

I'm having problems with a WS-X6K-SUP2-2GE module that is not booting up.

This is the output I get when trying to boot it up:

rommon 1 > i

System Bootstrap, Version 6.1(3)

Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Testing lower main memory - data equals address

Testing lower main memory - checkerboard

Testing lower main memory - inverse checkerboard

Clearing lower 16K memory for cache initialization

Clearing bss

Reading monitor variables from NVRAM

Warning: Rommon NVRAM area is corrupted. Initialize the area to default values

environment checksum in NVRAM failed

Enabling interrupts

Initializing TLB

Initializing cache

Initializing required TLB entries

Initializing main memory

Sizing NVRAMWarning: NVRAM size is 0

Initializing PCMCIA controller

Exiting init

c6k_sup2 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

rommon 1 > set

PS1=rommon ! >

rommon 2 >

rommon 2 > boot

unable to initialize the monitor library "bootflash:%c7200-fslib-m"

boot: cannot open "bootflash:"

boot: cannot determine first file name on device "bootflash:"

rommon 3 > confreg 0x2102

You must reset or power cycle for new config to take effect

rommon 4 > reset

System Bootstrap, Version 6.1(3)

Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Testing lower main memory - data equals address

Testing lower main memory - checkerboard

Testing lower main memory - inverse checkerboard

Clearing lower 16K memory for cache initialization

Clearing bss

Reading monitor variables from NVRAM

Warning: Rommon NVRAM area is corrupted. Initialize the area to default values

environment checksum in NVRAM failed

Enabling interrupts

Initializing TLB

Initializing cache

Initializing required TLB entries

Initializing main memory

Sizing NVRAMWarning: NVRAM size is 0

Initializing PCMCIA controller

Exiting init

c6k_sup2 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

I followed the instructions on this document, uploaded a new version into the SUP through xmodem but still no luck:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a008015bfa1.shtml

Is there anything else I can do to recover from this behaviour?

Thanks,

Pedro Miguel Marques

2 Replies 2

arunas.usonis
Level 1
Level 1

Hi Pedro,

What IOS version you trying to boot ? I guess that you probably below required min memory which could be 256MB,

where you have only 128. And you need to have 256 on both - SUP & MSFC

Reg

Arunas

Hi Arunas,

Thanks for your reply.

This a CatOS supervisor. I am trying it to boot from cat6000-sup2.6-4-4a.bin which is approximately 6MB in size. So I don't think memory is the issue here.

After some more reading I saw that this might be a problem related with the NVRAM need to use the battery (cr-2430) on board, if the battery ran out, then the NVRAM can not store the data.

If this is the case then I think RMA is my only chance.

Nonetheless please share your thoughts on this one.

Getting Started

Find answers to your questions by entering keywords or phrases in the Search bar above. New here? Use these resources to familiarize yourself with the community: