I found similar posts but they say this could be due to oversized images. It doesn't seem to be my case. My router memory count below shows I have 64D,16F as shown on the bottom of the pasted info below, isn't that correct ?
I downloaded an image from cisco.com for my C2610. I loaded the image onto the router via rommon/TFTP.
Then I noticed that every time I power cycle the C2610, I get the message "self decompressing....".
I made sure that the respective image I am trying to load, the 'c2600-j1s3-mz.123-16.bin' is supported by 64D and 16F routers. Note that is originally an image for 2610XM routers, however, before I downloaded an image for C2610 version 12.3 which also presented same problem.
Note that router was functional before I did this image download exercise.
Please advise what could be wrong and how I can get rid of this annoying 'decompressing' messages every time I start up router.
Router(config)#config register -register 0x2102
Router(config)#
Router#wri m
*Mar 1 00:08:37.904: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by consoleem
Building configuration...
[OK]
Router#
System Bootstrap, Version 11.3(2)XA4, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
TAC:Home:SW:IOS:Specials for info
C2600 platform with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0xf427d8
Self decompressing the image : ################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################## [OK]
Smart Init is enabled
smart init is sizing iomem
ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE
000091 0X0008B800 C2600 single Ethernet
0X00098670 public buffer pools
0X00211000 public particle pools
TOTAL: 0X00334E70
If any of the above Memory Requirements are
"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported
configuration or there is a software problem and
system operation may be compromised.
Rounded IOMEM up to: 4Mb.
Using 6 percent iomem. [4Mb/64Mb]
Restricted Rights Legend
Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is
subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph
(c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted
Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph
(c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer
Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.
cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134-1706
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2600 Software (C2600-J1S3-M), Version 12.3(16), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc4)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2005 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 23-Aug-05 17:45 by ssearch
Image text-base: 0x80008098, data-base: 0x81A2BE04
cisco 2610 (MPC860) processor (revision 0x300) with 61440K/4096K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID JAD054809DU (1862059776)
M860 processor: part number 0, mask 49
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
TN3270 Emulation software.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
1 Serial network interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)
