cisco 7206VXR

[sethumadhavan]

I face an issue with a 7206vxr having both NPEG1 and an I/O FE controller. The boot sequence of the IOS image first line points to image on the NPEG1 and second to the one on the I/O controller. Still the router boots with the second image from the I/O.

Regards

Sethu

[pkhatri]

Quoting from the NPE-G1 data sheet:

"Console and auxiliary ports: Because the NPE-G1 has a console port and an auxiliary port, and handles the other functionality of the I/O controller, the need for an I/O controller is eliminated. However, an I/O controller can still be used. If an I/O controller is detected in the I/O controller slot, I/O controller functionality defaults to the I/O controller (with the exception of Non-volatile Random Access Memory [NVRAM] and boot flash). The console and auxiliary ports of the NPE-G1 are then disabled."

This suggests that when both an I/O controller and NPE-G1 are present, only the bootflash and NVRAM on the NPE-G1 are useable.

Therefore, in your case, you will not be able to get your router to boot off the NPE-G1. As a definitive test, delete all images from the I/O controller and see if the router boots from the NPE-G1. I suspect it will not...

Hope that helps - pls rate the post if it does.

Paresh.

[sethumadhavan]

Hi ,

I checked this by removing the image on the I/O controller card. The router still boots with the image that is present on the NPEG1. Hence we can conclude that with NPEG1 and I/O controller, we can make the router to boot with NPEG1 or I/O controller by specifying the needed ones in the boot sequence.

The one instance of the boot problem that happened to me was some other issue then.

Regards

Sethu.

[pkhatri]

Hi Sethu,

Yeah, without looking at your configs, it's hard to say why I did not boot up off the NPE-G1 in the first place...

So are you saying that you have got this working now with valid images on both the I/O controller and the NPE-G1 ?

Paresh.