ASA 5510 Problem with Compact Flash

[Nedeljko Scepanovic]

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 /

[Marius Gunnerud]

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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[Nedeljko Scepanovic]

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.

[Marius Gunnerud]

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

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[Marius Gunnerud]

What ASA image version are you trying to use?

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[Nedeljko Scepanovic]

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:/

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

[Akshay Rastogi]

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.

or

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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[Nedeljko Scepanovic]

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?

[Akshay Rastogi]

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

[Nedeljko Scepanovic]

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#

[Marius Gunnerud]

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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[Nedeljko Scepanovic]

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

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

[Nedeljko Scepanovic]

Hello friends,

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

Thank you :)