Cisco 2811 IOS load 1

[JOAMON]

Hello....

I have copied a new IOS into the flash of my 2811 router. At this point would I just delete the old file and reload? Why is the old file called "falsh"? It was this way from the factory.


router_2811#sh flash
-#- --length-- -----date/time------ path
1 17239596 Feb 21 2005 11:57:16 -07:00 falsh
2 1538 Jan 24 2005 03:16:00 -07:00 sdmconfig-2811.cfg
3 3885056 Jan 24 2005 03:16:24 -07:00 sdm.tar
4 1463 Jan 24 2005 03:16:38 -07:00 home.html
5 270848 Jan 24 2005 03:16:50 -07:00 home.tar
6 93095 Jan 24 2005 03:17:06 -07:00 attack-drop.sdf
7 1187840 Jan 24 2005 03:17:22 -07:00 ips.tar
8 18995940 Jun 16 2005 14:37:08 -07:00 c2800nm-advsecurityk9-mz.123-14.T2.bi
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22196224 bytes available (41689088 bytes used)

 

[jneiberger]

I would imagine that someone just made a typo when they loaded the image onto the router. You'd be surprised at how many 2500s we used to have that had an image name of "y". ;-)

When doing a copy tftp flash, they would accidentally enter "y" for "yes" when prompted for the image name, thinking that they were acknowledging that they wanted to continue. I would guess that something similar happened here except that an additional typo was involved.

 

[JOAMON]

So...just delete the first flash file and then it should just use the newer IOS?

 

[jneiberger]

Yep. If you don't specify otherwise, it will boot with the first image it finds in flash.