Question about flash

[itd17]

We have a router that had the flash erased on it and I just installed the new version. However, upon reboot, the router goes into rommon. When I downloaded the flash again, my configurations are all there. I do a 'sh flash'--

System flash directory:
No files in System flash
[0 bytes used, 8388608 available, 8388608 total]
8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

What am I missing?

 

[rburke]

Your missing your IOS file. How are you upgrading the IOS? TFTP? RSL? Let us know....

burke

 

[itd17]

tftp

 

[rburke]

Ok, well the first thing you need to do is make sure that the TFTP server is running properly, and that you can get to the router and the router can get to the TFTP server. Pinging works fine. Then you'll use the command

copy tftp flash

which will then prompt you for all the information about the TFTP server name or IP address, the remote file name, and the local file name when it is copied. Once you fill all that out, then it should proceed with the copying.

Is this the process you went through? What model router are you trying to upgrade? And what IOS ver? Let us know...

burke

 

[itd17]

Here's some output to better explain the issue (maybe a bay image?)

Router#copy tftp flash
Address or name of remote host [10.250.3.7]?
Source filename [c2600-i-mz.120-7.T]?
Destination filename [c2600-i-mz.120-7.T]?
Accessing tftp://10.250.3.7/c2600-i-mz.120-7.T...
Erase flash: before copying? [confirm]
Erasing the flash filesystem will remove all files! Continue? [confirm]^[
Loading c2600-i-mz.120-7.T from 10.250.3.7 (via FastEthernet0/0): !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(3r)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C2600 platform with 32768 Kbytes of main memory

loadprog: bad file magic number: 0x0
boot: cannot load "flash:"

System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(3r)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C2600 platform with 32768 Kbytes of main memory

loadprog: bad file magic number: 0x0
boot: cannot load "flash:"

System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(3r)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C2600 platform with 32768 Kbytes of main memory

rommon 1 >

 

[rburke]

Yeah, I would agree that it could be a bad image. I would try to re-download it onto the TFTP server and then reinstalling it onto the router. Also, you might need more flash memory to install the 12.x IOS, but I'm not positive on it.

burke

 

[tiremd]

That or maybe a bad piece of flash.... is it cisco approved memory?

 

[itd17]

It was a bad image. All better now. Thanks everyone for your help!!!

 

[CCIEWANNABE]

Link:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/130/recovery_index.shtml

You will find this link very useful. Just select your model etc. Route once; switch many