7206VXR bootstrap won't load IOS on boot

[Chrismith]

7206VXR Chassis
I/O-FE
NPE-300
PA-2FE

On powering up the boot ROM loads, reports:
Bad CPU ID 00002721
loads again, reports:
boot: cannot determine first file name on device "slot0:"
loads again and drops to ROMMON >

I can then manually get it to boot by typing:
boot disk1:c7200-is-mz.123-5a.bin

Router then works fine.

#show bootvar
BOOT variable = disk1:c7200-is-mz.123-5a.bin,12;
CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist
BOOTLDR variable =
Configuration register is 0x2102

But it doesn't load the boot image (BOOTLDR variable) or the system image (BOOT variable)

It's as if the boot ROM simply isn't reading the startup-config and therefore doesn't know about the BOOTLDR or BOOT variables?

Full boot text copied below.
Any help appreciated !

Thanks,
Chris


System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(20000824:081033) [dbeazley-cosmos_e_LATEST 101],E
Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory


Self decompressing the image : ################################################]

Bad CPU ID 00002721
System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(20000824:081033) [dbeazley-cosmos_e_LATEST 101],E
Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

boot: cannot determine first file name on device "slot0:"

System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(20000824:081033) [dbeazley-cosmos_e_LATEST 101],E
Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory


Self decompressing the image : ################################################]

Bad CPU ID 00002721
System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(20000824:081033) [dbeazley-cosmos_e_LATEST 101],E
Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

rommon 1 > dir disk1:
Directory of disk1:

2 17185600 -rw- c7200-is-mz.123-5a.bin
rommon 2 > boot disk1:c7200-is-mz.123-5a.bin

Self decompressing the image : ################################################]

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cisco Systems, Inc.
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Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-IS-M), Version 12.3(5a), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 24-Nov-03 21:24 by kellythw
Image text-base: 0x60008AF4, data-base: 0x61C1A000

cisco 7206VXR (NPE300) processor (revision D) with 229376K/65536K bytes of memo.
Processor board ID 23666591
R7000 CPU at 262MHz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.1

Last reset from power-on
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

PCI bus mb0_mb1 has 500 bandwidth points
PCI bus mb2 has 0 bandwidth points

3 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

16384K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
46976K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 1 (Sector size 512 bytes).
4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
Logging of %SNMP-3-AUTHFAIL is enabled


Press RETURN to get started!

 

[adonis547]

What happens if you do the following (while in enable):

# conf t
router(config)# boot system disk1:c7200-is-mz.123-5a.bin
router(config)# exit
# wr

and reload.

/mich

 

[Chrismith]

Makes no difference, I already have this is running-config and startup-config:

boot-start-marker
boot system disk1:c7200-is-mz.123-5a.bin
boot bootldr bootflash:c7200-boot-mz.120-28a.bin
boot-end-marker

To me it looks as though the boot ROM is not aware of the variables telling it to load the boot image or the system image.

I'm guessing it is booting from the ROM on the I/O-FE card, as suggested by the "Bad CPU ID" message and this boot ROM is an older version and doesn't understand the NPE-300, why it's not booting the boot image though, I haven't a clue !

Cheers,
Chris

 

[vipergg]

cisco always recomended that the bootloader be the same as the IOS image if it small enough to fit on your bootflash . If there is room try upgrading the bootloader image .

 

[Chrismith]

That's the problem though - it won't load the bootloader.

It should do due to the following line in config:
boot bootldr bootflash:c7200-boot-mz.120-28a.bin
but the boot ROM is not loading the bootloader image from bootflash:

and I have no idea why! If I could get the boot ROM to load the boot image in bootflash: I think my problems would be solved.

Chris

 

[vipergg]

That is strange that it doesn't see the bootloader . If you configure it in running config it won't show up until you do a "write mem" . after you do a write mem when you do a show bootvar the bootloader variable should show . Also seeing that it appears to be trying to load out of slot0: have you tried moving your disk1: into slot0: and reload and see what happens ?