Need HELP!! after upgrade of Flash on pix 520

[tlidberg]

After putting in the new 16MB flash card, I get some error messages when booting as well as trying to write the conf. The error message is:

assertion "(addr & STRATA_SECTOR_MASK) == 0" failed: file "strata.c", line 307

strata_write_status: write timeout(10000) 0x1fNot success

Insufficient flash space available for this request:

Size info: request:2241 current:2241 delta:0 free:8257536

Since I am new to all of this, I am in need of help!

Tobias Lidberg

[jscinocca]

What code are you running?

type " sh ver"

[tlidberg]

This is what I get from sh ver;

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Version 5.0(2)

Compiled on Tue 19-Oct-99 17:26 by pixbuild

Finesse Bios V3.3

fw002 up 1 hour 57 mins

Hardware: SE440BX2, 128 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 349 MHz

Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300

BIOS Flash AM28F256 @ 0xfffd8000

0: ethernet0: address is 00d0.b71a.da4f, irq 11

1: ethernet1: address is 00d0.b71a.e6ae, irq 15

2: ethernet2: address is 00e0.b602.1a6b, irq 10

3: ethernet3: address is 00e0.b602.1a6a, irq 9

4: ethernet4: address is 00e0.b602.1a69, irq 11

5: ethernet5: address is 00e0.b602.1a68, irq 15

Licensed connections: 65536

[jscinocca]

Try upgrding the code to 5.25 or higher

[tlidberg]

I tried to upgrade to 6.11, using a 6.11 Boothelper disk since I cant use the copy tftp command. But it failed, saying my flash is obsolete and needs upgrading. I thought that what I just did...

Tobias

[jscinocca]

why can't you do the copy tftp command,

I always use that.. it is the easiest way

what errors does it give you when you try that

[tlidberg]

You cant use it with a software release below 5.1

Do I need to do something on the PIX after I installed the Flash card, like clearing the flash or anything? I just put it in a free ISA slot and started it up again...

[jscinocca]

I REMEMBER...

You have to upgrade to 5.25 first then upgrade from there...

I know its stupid

:)

[tlidberg]

Ah, I.C.

Will try it on monday... Will post the result...

Thanks a lot for your help!

Cheers

Tobias

[tlidberg]

YES! Got it to work! Now running 6.11 with its cool webadmin interface...

Thanks again for your help!

/Tobias

[g.soto]

Hi Tobias,

I will do the same upgrade you did and I just want to be sure about the procedure.

First do the hardware thing and when the pix is up again, upgrade to version 5.25 and then to 6.11, is that OK?

The upgrade was with the boothelper or the tftp command?

Thanks,

Guillermo

[tlidberg]

Hi Guillermo!

Yes, that is correct. I had to use boothelper for the first upgrade, since I was running version 5.0(2). After the first upgrade there was no problem upgrading to 6.11 with tftp.

Dont forget to remove the old Flash card!

Have fun!

Tobias