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4500 can't find a boot file

joeadiutori
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Hi All,

I have a 4503-E on my work bench.  It's been out of production for a year or so.  I started working on it last week.  I think I may have cause a boot up problem.  It comes up to ROMMON, but then I need to type "boot" to get it to come up all the way.  Below are some print outs that help illustrate my situation.                    

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config-register = 0x2102
Autobooting using BOOT variable specified file.....

Could not find a valid file in BOOT environment variable.
BOOT variable can be set from IOS. To find currently set
Rom Monitor variables, please type 'set' command.

For help on choosing a boot method,  type 'confreg' command.

rommon 1 > For help on choosing a boot method,  type 'confreg' command.
rommon 1 >

At this point I type "boot" and it proceeds to the normal bootup.  (Below are a couple more print outs)

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RG-4503#
RG-4503#dir /all
Directory of bootflash:/

    1  -rwx    12185732  Feb 21 2008 08:23:59 -06:00   [cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA3.bin]
    2  -rwx    14787732  May 21 2008 01:00:30 -06:00  cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-44.SG.bin
    3  -rw-        7315      Dec 31 2012 07:13:15 -06:00  ***

61341696 bytes total (34360532 bytes free)
RG-4503#
RG-4503#
RG-4503#show run | include boot
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
RG-4503#

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It looks like there is nothing between boot-start and boot-end.  I'm thinking there needs to be something in there.  Please advise.

Thank you - Joe

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