Problems with a 2924C,

[cg132]

Ok, first thing first. Is the Cisco registry part of IOS or does it extend beyond that? Is it part of the boot loader? I have a couple of questions first off there for my own knowledge. I’m not an expert with IOS, but I manage to get around. I’ve obtained this switch, model ws-c2924c-xl-en. It was a purchase from 2 years ago. I found it in a box collecting dust. I remember it not working, but I couldn’t remember why. So I fired it up and found out. It won’t boot, and gets stuck in a loop. It boots and reboots and never stops. I’ve formatted the flash and loaded a fresh .bin image. The thing passes all the POST tests, but it keeps rebooting. The stack dump might as well be Chinese to me. I herd that there are final boot parameters in the Cisco registry, that’s why I ask if it’s part of the image or not. I’ve provided the output in at the bottom. One line that does interest me right after the POST, it is...

molecule_send() returns 4

Now what the hell does that mean? I’ve plugged it into many search engines far and wide and nothing has come up. Not a damn thing. So I’m really at a loss. I’m wondering if I should throw this switch away or not.

My real question is how does Cisco go about a full factory reset? I guess that’s something we’ll never know.

Thanks for lookin’
Mikey

switch: dir flash:
Directory of flash:/

2 -rwx 1926144 <date> c2900xl-c3h2l9s-mz.120-5.WC10.bin

1685504 bytes available (1927168 bytes used)
switch: reset
Are you sure you want to reset the system (y/n)?y
System resetting...

C2900XL Boot Loader (C2900-HBOOT-M) Version 12.0(5)XU, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Compiled Mon 03-Apr-00 17:20 by swati
starting...
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:03:e3:30:cd:40
Xmodem file system is available.
Initializing Flash...
flashfs[0]: 1 files, 1 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 3612672
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 1927168
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 1685504
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 4 seconds.
...done Initializing Flash.
Boot Sector Filesystem (bs installed, fsid: 3
Parameter Block Filesystem (pb installed, fsid: 4
Loading "flash:c2900xl-c3h2l9s-mz.120-5.WC10.bin"...############################
######################################################################## ########
######################################################################## ########


File "flash:c2900xl-c3h2l9s-mz.120-5.WC10.bin" uncompressed and installed, entry
point: 0x3000
executing...

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cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134-1706



Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2900XL Software (C2900XL-C3H2L9S-M), Version 12.0(5)WC10, RELEASE SOFT
WARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 28-May-04 09:55 by antonino
Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x00388F08


Initializing C2900XL flash...
flashfs[1]: 1 files, 1 directories
flashfs[1]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[1]: Total bytes: 3612672
flashfs[1]: Bytes used: 1927168
flashfs[1]: Bytes available: 1685504
flashfs[1]: flashfs fsck took 6 seconds.
flashfs[1]: Initialization complete.
...done Initializing C2900XL flash.
C2900XL POST: System Board Test: Passed
C2900XL POST: Daughter Card Test: Passed
C2900XL POST: CPU Buffer Test: Passed
C2900XL POST: CPU Notify RAM Test: Passed
C2900XL POST: CPU Interface Test: Passed
C2900XL POST: Testing Switch Core: Passed
C2900XL POST: Testing Buffer Table: Passed
C2900XL POST: Data Buffer Test: Passed
C2900XL POST: Configuring Switch Parameters: Passed
molecule_send() returns 4

%Software-forced reload

Preparing to dump core...
Buffered messages:
Queued messages:
Exception (8192)! Debug Exception (Could be NULL pointer dereference)
CPU Register Context:
Vector = 0x00002000 PC = 0x001E3640 MSR = 0x00029200 CR = 0x22000020
LR = 0x001E3634 CTR = 0x001DE5E0 XER = 0x00000000
R0 = 0x001E3634 R1 = 0x00595128 R2 = 0x00000000 R3 = 0x004D3D30
R4 = 0xFFFFFFFE R5 = 0x00000000 R6 = 0x00546BB0 R7 = 0x00000000
R8 = 0x004D0000 R9 = 0x0052CA54 R10 = 0x00000000 R11 = 0x00002DEF
R12 = 0x28000020 R13 = 0x00000000 R14 = 0x00000000 R15 = 0x00000000
R16 = 0x00000000 R17 = 0x00000000 R18 = 0x00000000 R19 = 0x00000000
R20 = 0x00000000 R21 = 0x00000000 R22 = 0x00000000 R23 = 0x00000000
R24 = 0x00000000 R25 = 0x00000000 R26 = 0x00000000 R27 = 0x00000025
R28 = 0x005921B8 R29 = 0x005D7BDC R30 = 0x005921B8 R31 = 0x00000000

Stack trace:
PC = 0x001E3640, SP = 0x00595128
Frame 00: SP = 0x00595138 PC = 0x001E3634
Frame 01: SP = 0x00595168 PC = 0x00107D5C
Frame 02: SP = 0x005951F0 PC = 0x000FB26C
Frame 03: SP = 0x00000000 PC = 0x001EA930

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2900XL Software (C2900XL-C3H2L9S-M), Version 12.0(5)WC10, RELEASE SOFT
WARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 28-May-04 09:55 by antonino

Switch uptime is 13 seconds

cisco WS-C2924C-XL (PowerPC403GA) processor (revision 0x11) with 8192K/1024K byt
es of memory.


C2900XL Boot Loader (C2900-HBOOT-M) Version 12.0(5)XU, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Compiled Mon 03-Apr-00 17:20 by swati
starting...
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:03:e3:30:cd:40
Xmodem file system is available.

 

[vipergg]

If you can get into it I would make sure the conf register is correct , for this switch it should read 0xf , if not change it and try rebooting .

 

[cg132]

Unfortunate I cannot get into the registry. That's why I was asking if it was part of the OS or not. Because if it is then it really doesn't matter now does it? (c: Still, I want to know how cisco would refurb this stuff. I'm sure they ran in to this problem all the time.

 

[BCSCB]

Hi,

Ive had the same error messages not 4 days ago on a 2924M-Xl-EN

I found that one of the module cards was not correctly seated. Dont know how as it has been up and working for nearly 2 years!!

I removed the module and reseated it.

All works fine now.

 

[cg132]

No cards on this device. If you look up the model number you'll see it is a 24 port device without expantion bays. So, no cards on my device to reseed. (c: Thanks for the idea anyway...still havent gotten a hit on the return 4 error and i've been searching for days now. It's starting to look like this forum cant help me either.