Ok how can we kickstart this thing....

[Steven Williams]

My 5505 is messed up. I went to rommon and did a erase all to kill all the possible file corruptions. Then im trying to boot from tftp now so I can get an image back on the flash....but...it looks like it hangs....

rommon #7> tftp
ROMMON Variable Settings:
  ADDRESS=192.168.10.136
  SERVER=192.168.10.30
  GATEWAY=0.0.0.0
  PORT=Ethernet0/0
  VLAN=untagged
  IMAGE=asa915-k8.bin
  CONFIG=
  LINKTIMEOUT=20
  PKTTIMEOUT=4
  RETRY=20

tftp asa915-k8.bin@192.168.10.30
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Received 27113472 bytes

Launching TFTP Image...

Cisco Security Appliance admin loader (3.0) #0: Thu Mar 27 09:37:28 PDT 2014
Platform ASA5505

Loading...
IO memory blocks requested from bigphys 32bit: 9956

Never moves past that.....suggestions?

[david-swope]

How are you performing this? Over the network or directly connected via your NIC? If over the network, try another source or connect directly to the the ASA with your NIC. 

[Vibhor Amrodia]

Hi,

Have you tried a different IOS on the ASA device ? Something like , ASA 8.2.5 or 8.4.6 ?

It would be a good test for this issue as i think the ASA device is hanging at the time when it is trying to boot up the ASA IOS image.

Thanks and Regards,

Vibhor Amrodia

[Steven Williams]

Ok I got this thing to boot from TFTP and physically changed out the Flash card and not get this error:

Launching TFTP Image...

Cisco Security Appliance admin loader (3.0) #0: Thu Mar 27 09:37:28 PDT 2014
Platform ASA5505

Loading...
IO memory blocks requested from bigphys 32bit: 9956
Àdosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
open /dev/hda1:No such file or directory
dosfsck(/dev/hda1) returned 1
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt/disk0 failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt/disk0 failed: No such file or directory
Processor memory 859832320, Reserved memory: 68157440

ciscoasa# show flash
--#--  --length--  -----date/time------  path
 2270  196         Aug 28 2008 00:28:36  upgrade_startup_errors_200808280028.log
 2268  0           Aug 28 2008 00:28:36  coredumpinfo
 2269  59          Aug 28 2008 00:28:36  coredumpinfo/coredump.cfg
 2265  0           Aug 28 2008 00:28:12  crypto_archive
 2249  0           Aug 28 2008 00:27:54  log

0 bytes total (0 bytes free)
ciscoasa#

So why is not seeing the flash?

[Vibhor Amrodia · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I think you should try to format the disk0:-

format disk0: and see if this works ? If it doesn't , I would say open a TAC case and request a replacement if this is covered under a contract ?

Thanks and Regards,

Vibhor Amrodia

[Steven Williams]

That was it. I did try that on the other flash memory. Might have been bad flash. What format does it need to be formatted with if I was to put in my computer card reader and try to use it again? FAT16, FAT32?

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

kindly check if your 5505 has enough flash and DRAM to support the new image.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/compatibility/asamatrx.html