topic ASA 5510 Problem with Compact Flash in Network Security

ASA 5510 Problem with Compact Flash

Nedeljko Scepanovic — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:28:36 GMT

Hello friends 🙂

My company has got ASA 5510 without CF. I inserted a few CF but without any success.I tried to use CF from my ASA 5505, too. I tried to use format, and fsck, but everything was the same. Can I use the same image from ASA 5505 on ASA 5510 ?

Error log:
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt/disk0 failed: no such file or directory

and

Evaluating BIOS Options ...

Launch BIOS Extension to setup ROMMON

Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (1.0(11)5) #0: Thu Aug 28 15:23:50 PDT 2008

Platform ASA5510

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt boot.

Use SPACE to begin boot immediately.

Launching BootLoader...

Default configuration file contains 1 entry.

Searching / for images to boot.

No images in /

Error 15: File not found
unable to boot an image
Default configuration file contains 1 entry.
Searching /
for images to boot.
No images in /

An asa 5510 cannot run a 5505

Marius Gunnerud — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:13:00 GMT

An asa 5510 cannot run a 5505 image. I suggest you boot into ROMMON and load the asa 5510 image from a tftp server. Once the ASA is booted format the CF and then copy the ASA5510 image into flash and configure the image to boot from using the "boot system" command.

http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000792

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Hi, I tried via tftp, I

Nedeljko Scepanovic — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:46:32 GMT

Hi, I tried via tftp, I found image for ASA 5510, and I uploaded via tftp, but I can not copy from tftp to flash memory. I tried fsck, and format, but without any succuess.

Why are you unable to copy

Marius Gunnerud — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:48:23 GMT

Why are you unable to copy from tftp to flash? are you getting an error?

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What ASA image version are

Marius Gunnerud — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:49:40 GMT

What ASA image version are you trying to use?

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Hello :)

Nedeljko Scepanovic — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:32:35 GMT

Hello 🙂

Output from booting via tftp:

Insufficient flash space available for this request:
Size info: request:32 free:0 delta:32
open or write(ffsdev/2/write/32) failed
Could not initialize system files in flash.
config_fetcher: channel open failed
ERROR: MIGRATION - Could not get the startup configuration.

INFO: MIGRATION - Saving the startup errors to file 'flash:upgrade_startup_errors_201603140917.log'

ciscoasa# dir flash:

Directory of disk0:/

1164   -rw- 196         09:17:27 Mar 14 2016 upgrade_startup_errors_201603140917.log
1162   drw- 0           09:17:27 Mar 14 2016 coredumpinfo
1157   drw- 0           09:17:24 Mar 14 2016 crypto_archive
1147   drwx 0           09:17:16 Mar 14 2016 log

0 bytes total (0 bytes free)
ciscoasa# dir disk0:

Directory of disk0:/

Error :Accessing tftp://192

Nedeljko Scepanovic — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:36:13 GMT

Error :

Accessing tftp://192.168.100.10/asa832-k8.bin...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
%Error copying tftp://192.168.100.10/asa832-k8.bin (Not enough space on device)
ciscoasa#

There is your problem...not

Marius Gunnerud — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:43:05 GMT

There is your problem...not enough space.

Have you upgraded your flash to 2 GB? This is the recommended size if you intent to run an ASA version that is 8.3 or higher.

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Hm, but image asa832-k8.bin,

Nedeljko Scepanovic — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:14:59 GMT

Hm, but image asa832-k8.bin, has size about 25MB. ????

Now I format my 2GB to 512MB, but I will format again.

Hi,

Akshay Rastogi — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:20:50 GMT

Hi,

You can boot ASA5505 image on ASA5510,5520, 5540 as well till version 9.1.6/9.1.7 as of now(9.2.x of 5505 is made available for 5505 and other -x series ASAs).

It looks like a corrupt compact flash or may be you need to format this from ASA5505 itself and then use.

Try to place this Flash again on ASA5505, load the image let say asa825-k8.bin and then see if this works on ASA5510.

It looks like CF got corrupted.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Akshay Rastogi

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Hm, now I think ASA has

Nedeljko Scepanovic — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:33:03 GMT

Hm, now I think ASA has problem with CF reader. This is only normal reason. Can I format CF on Cisco Router 2801. Does both of the Cisco devices use the same file system?

Hi,

Akshay Rastogi — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:53:02 GMT

Hi,

I believe not. You would receive the bad magic error i guess. You could try that though. However try the one i mentioned earlier.

Regards,

Akshay Rastogi

Hello friends,

Nedeljko Scepanovic — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:15:46 GMT

Hello friends,

ASA has hardware problem, We got second device, and now everything is fine 🙂

Thank you 🙂