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Cisco 7200 VXR Boot Issues

krock1983
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I have a older Cisco c7200 VXR Router that has been sent to me from one of our DataCeters. Not sure what was wrong with it
but it came without a flash card. Once I put in a new flash card in there I get the following boot prinnt:
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System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

an alternate boot helper program is not specified
(monitor variable "BOOTLDR" is not set)
and unable to determine first file in bootflash
loadprog: error - on file open
boot: cannot load "cisco16-C7200"

System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory


Read cis from dev 0 error (-6)PCMCIA slot0 device is not initialized
open: read error...requested 0x4 bytes, got 0x0
trouble reading device magic number
boot: cannot open "slot0:"
boot: cannot determine first file name on device "slot0:"

System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

boot: cannot determine first file name on device "bootflash:"

System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

rommon 1 >
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I have tried loading the IOS throught tftp:

rommon 2 >  set
PS1=rommon ! >
CRASHINFO=bootflash:crashinfo_20030517-124235
RET_2_RTS=07:24:07 UTC Tue Mar 10 2009
BSI=0
RET_2_RUTC=0
BOOT=slot1:,12
?=0
rommon 3 > IP_ADDRESS=172.18.36.235
rommon 4 > IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.254.0
rommon 5 > DEFAULT_GATEWAY=172.18.36.1
rommon 6 > TFTP_SERVER=172.18.36.64
rommon 7 > TFTP_FILE=c7200-advsecurityk9-mz.150-1.M5.bin
rommon 8 > tftpdnld

monitor: command "tftpdnld" not found
rommon 9 > 

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I dont have an option to use xmodem:

rommon 1 > ?
alias               set and display aliases command
boot                boot up an external process
break               set/show/clear the breakpoint
confreg             configuration register utility
cont                continue executing a downloaded image
context             display the context of a loaded image
cpu_card_type       display CPU card type
dev                 list the device table
dir                 list files in file system
dis                 disassemble instruction stream
frame               print out a selected stack frame
help                monitor builtin command help
history             monitor command history
meminfo             main memory information
repeat              repeat a monitor command
reset               system reset
set                 show all monitor variables
show_spd            show all SPD data
stack               produce a stack trace
sync                write monitor environment to NVRAM
sysret              print out info from last system return
unalias             unset an alias
unset               unset a monitor variable
rommon 2 >
rommon 2 > xmodem

monitor: command "xmodem" not found
rommon 3 >
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is there anything else that anyone may know how to load the IOS to this bad boy?
Thank you

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