ASA upgrade problems

bcnsupport1 · ‎02-07-2013

I am having this problem upgrading my standby ASA. It never gives an error it just boots over and over again. Anyone have any suggestions? Without even an error it's hard to figure out what's up.. Thanks!

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Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (1.0(11)4) #0: Fri Mar 21 17:35:35 PDT 2008

Platform ASA5550

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt boot.

Use SPACE to begin boot immediately.

Launching BootLoader...

Boot configuration file contains 1 entry.

Loading disk0:/asa911-k8.bin... Booting...

Platform ASA5550

Loading...

IO memory blocks requested from bigphys 32bit: 66624

Booting system, please wait...

CISCO SYSTEMS

Embedded BIOS Version 1.0(11)4 03/21/08 17:09:54.41

Low Memory: 631 KB

High Memory: 3968 MB

PCI Device Table.

Bus Dev Func VendID DevID Class Irq

00 00 00 8086 2578 Host Bridge

00 01 00 8086 2579 PCI-to-PCI Bridge

00 03 00 8086 257B PCI-to-PCI Bridge

00 1C 00 8086 25AE PCI-to-PCI Bridge

00 1D 00 8086 25A9 Serial Bus 11

00 1D 01 8086 25AA Serial Bus 10

00 1D 04 8086 25AB System

00 1D 05 8086 25AC IRQ Controller

00 1D 07 8086 25AD Serial Bus 9

00 1E 00 8086 244E PCI-to-PCI Bridge

00 1F 00 8086 25A1 ISA Bridge

00 1F 02 8086 25A3 IDE Controller 11

00 1F 03 8086 25A4 Serial Bus 5

00 1F 05 8086 25A6 Audio 5

02 01 00 8086 1075 Ethernet 11

03 01 00 177D 0003 Encrypt/Decrypt 9

03 02 00 8086 1079 Ethernet 9

03 02 01 8086 1079 Ethernet 9

03 03 00 8086 1079 Ethernet 9

03 03 01 8086 1079 Ethernet 9

04 02 00 8086 1209 Ethernet 11

04 03 00 8086 1209 Ethernet 5

Evaluating BIOS Options ...

Launch BIOS Extension to setup ROMMON

Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (1.0(11)4) #0: Fri Mar 21 17:35:35 PDT 2008

Platform ASA5550

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt boot.

Use SPACE to begin boot immediately.

Launching BootLoader...

Boot configuration file contains 1 entry.

Loading disk0:/asa911-k8.bin... Booting...

Platform ASA5550

Loading...

IO memory blocks requested from bigphys 32bit: 66624

Booting system, please wait...

jj27 · ‎02-07-2013

I have never seen this, but with many electronics I've had success in removing the power source for a minute or two. Try that and see if it helps. Could have something funky stuck in RAM.

millerjw · ‎09-16-2013

Did you ever find a solution? I have several 5505's that are doing this. They seem to run 8.4.3 fine, but not 8.4.6 or 8.4.7. I have two boot commands in the config, the first for 8.4.6-5 and the second for 8.4.6. plugging in the asa, it tries to boot 8.4.6, but boot loops. If I esc to rommon and manually boot 8.4.3 it will load fine. I have several ASA 5505's doing this that have been upgraded using the ASDM tool. This particular output is for one with 8.4.6, but I have others with 8.4.7 that do the exact same thing, again upgraded from the ASDM tool.

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...

Boot configuration file contains 2 entries.

Loading disk0:/asa846-5-k8.bin... Booting...

Platform ASA5505

Loading...

IO memory blocks requested from bigphys 32bit: 9672

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...

Boot configuration file contains 2 entries.

Loading disk0:/asa846-5-k8.bin... Booting...

Platform ASA5505

Loading...

IO memory blocks requested from bigphys 32bit: 9672

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...

Boot configuration file contains 2 entries.

Loading disk0:/asa846-5-k8.bin...

millerjw · ‎09-16-2013

So I took one of the boot loop asa's, deleted the 8.4.6 version that was installed on it and manually pushed the same 8.4.6 code via scp (downloaded tonight from cisco). Rebooted and sure enough it worked. So I figured the code upload was corrupt. So I checked one of the others that was boot looping with the verify /md5 command. Interestingly enough the md5 matches even though the code will not boot.

Any ideas as to why?