ASA boot problem

vladimirtegeltija — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:17:22 GMT

Hello,

I have problem with ASA 5505. One of our customers brought me ASA 5505 with deleted flash. They want me to fix the problem. I tried to load image from rommon mode, but failed many many times. I used 4 different software files. I tried many many times and most often I get :

Cisco Security Appliance admin loader (3.0) #0: Thu Aug 7 20:59:50 MDT 2008
sumval(0x12b7) chksum(0x0 )md5(0x42c85cfa 0xf6dcadb9 0x72f7072f 0xb799f56b)
md5(0xb28e4ed2 0x301e63f0 0xc2fe8317 0xd320bbe2)
Checksum verification on install image failed.

with asa722-k8.bin file.

In one ocasion, when I booted asa804-k8.bin, ASA attempted to boot but stucked immediately and became idle. Noting happened, I leave it 24 hours and noting happened.

Please if someone knows what to do, let me know !!!

Here is the detail output from ASA:

rommon #0>
rommon #0> ADDRESS=192.168.0.26
rommon #1> SERVER=192.168.0.212
rommon #2> IMAGE=asa804-k8.bin
rommon #3> PORT=Ethernet0/0
Ethernet0/0
MAC Address: 0025.840d.52d8
Link is UP
rommon #4> tftp
ROMMON Variable Settings:
ADDRESS=192.168.0.26
SERVER=192.168.0.212
GATEWAY=0.0.0.0
PORT=Ethernet0/0
VLAN=untagged
IMAGE=asa804-k8.bin
CONFIG=
LINKTIMEOUT=20
PKTTIMEOUT=4
RETRY=20

tftp asa804-k8.bin@192.168.0.212
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Received 14137344 bytes

Launching TFTP Image...

Rebooting....

CISCO SYSTEMS
Embedded BIOS Version 1.0(12)13 08/28/08 15:50:37.45

Low Memory: 632 KB
High Memory: 251 MB
PCI Device Table.
Bus Dev Func VendID DevID Class              Irq
00 01 00   1022   2080 Host Bridge
00 01 02   1022   2082 Chipset En/Decrypt 11
00 0C 00   1148   4320 Ethernet           11
00 0D 00   177D   0003 Network En/Decrypt 10
00 0F 00   1022   2090 ISA Bridge
00 0F 02   1022   2092 IDE Controller
00 0F 03   1022   2093 Audio              10
00 0F 04   1022   2094 Serial Bus         9
00 0F 05   1022   2095 Serial Bus         9

Evaluating BIOS Options ...
Launch BIOS Extension to setup ROMMON

Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (1.0(12)13) #0: Thu Aug 28 15:55:27 PDT 2008

Platform ASA5505

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 /
Error 15: File not found

unable to boot an image

Failsafe booting engaged.
Default configuration file contains 1 entry.

Searching / for images to boot.

No images in /
Error 15: File not found

unable to boot an image

Re: ASA boot problem

Vinay Sharma — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:13:55 GMT

Vladimir,

Moving your Question to ASA community.

thanks,

Vinay

Re: ASA boot problem

altussupport — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:37:18 GMT

HI,

I just reloaded a image to my asa 5505 and did the following.

Saved the image file : asa831-k8.bin and installed a tftp server app (pumpkin)

added the following :

rommon #0> ADDRESS=192.168.0.? (Where this is the address you want to give the asa)
rommon #1> SERVER=192.168.0.? (Where this is the address of the laptop you have pumpkin installed on
rommon #2> IMAGE=asa831-k8.bin
rommon #3> PORT=Ethernet0/1 (As I had the laptop connected to the ASA into this port)

press Enter, should display the following:

Ethernet0/1
MAC Address: 0025.840d.52d8
Link is UP

type :

rommon #4> tftp

when it finished doing its thing I then rebooted the ASA and it loaded the new image.

ASA boot problem

Zhixin — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 05:09:21 GMT

I Have the same problem,too.But my machine is ASA 5550(asa802-k8), I used 3 different software files(802,825.845),but it never work.At last ,I have to use a new ASA.

If you have a solution,please tell me,thanks!

My e-mail:cuizhx7290@gmail.com

ASA boot problem

narawat — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:52:42 GMT

Hi,

Try formatting the flash and load the image again as the procedure that you are using is correct, it's an issue with either image itself or the flash where you are storing it.

Though it looks to me that its an issue with image.

Hope it helps

Cheers,

Naveen

I have the same problem, i

wangliangshuai — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 01:37:57 GMT

I have the same problem, i tried to upgrade my ASA5505 from 825 to 845 and it works. then i saw it works and boot from 845 image. i delete the original bin. the problem happened this time. when i reload the firewall. it failed to boot.

the error message is ▒hecksum verification on install image failed.

I tried to load the 825 back from TFTP. but still not working. my license is SEC-BUN.

Anybody who has resolution on this now ? many thanks.

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