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Cisco 3640 Flash errors - upgrade bootrom?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Onnel)
Tue Feb 15 02:57:42 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:57:13 +0200
From: Kim Onnel <karim.adel@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Kim Onnel <karim.adel@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I have a 3640 that while booting up gives the errors below at the console,
Console Errors:
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C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled
unknown flash de=FE
System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(7)AX [kuong (7)AX], EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE=
SOFT
WARE (fc2)
Copyright (c) 1994-1996 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled
unknown flash device - mandev code =3D 0xffff
cannot read flash info
getdevnum warning: device "flash" has size of zero
unknown flash device - mandev code =3D 0xffff
cannot read flash info
getdevnum warning: device "flash" has size of zero
open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0x0
trouble reading device magic number
boot: cannot open "flash:"
an alternate boot helper program is not specified
(monitor variable "BOOTLDR" is not set)
and unable to determine first file in bootflash
loadprog: error - on file open
boot: cannot load "tftp:c3640-js-mz.122-15.T5.bin 40.40.40.2"
System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(7)AX [kuong (7)AX], EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE=
SOFT
WARE (fc2)
Copyright (c) 1994-1996 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled
I was adviced to upgrade bootrom, because the bootrom doesnt recognize
the flash sticks, how do you guys check that this bootrom will work
with this flash stick ?
Regards
