Could not determine the file system type

[matt-long]

Hi,

I have a pix 515E UR with version 7.0.1 installed. I have had a situation with it that it will not boot and brings up this error:

Total NICs found: 2

mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 11 MAC: 0013.7fdd.xxxx

mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 10 MAC: 0013.7fdd.xxxx

BIOS Flash=am29f400b @ 0xd8000

Could not determine the file system type. Data in the flash will be lost.

Initializing flashfs...

And goes into the equivalent of rommon and I can then run an image from TFTP. On subsequent reboots there is not an issue. Any suggestions.

Is this a v7 issue or is it likely to be a stuffed firewall?

Thanks

[mostiguy]

on subsequent reboots, do you have to again load the image from tftp?

[matt-long]

Yeah, its booting fine now, both from reloads and power cycles.

I could do a show flash once login in and the flash was readable.

It was very strange

[mostiguy]

Weird. What version did you upgrade from? Perhaps the flash file system upgrade process did not take the first time

[matt-long]

the upgrade was from 6.3.4, strange thing was that it had been rebooted and running for 2 days prior to this error occuring.

I wondered if the flash had an issue on the box. We are keeping and eye on it to see if it reoccurs.