Cisco 887VA-K9 boots only to ROMMON

colintaylor · ‎05-10-2013

Hi

I have an 887VA-K9 which boots into ROMMON mode every time.

It seems to have 3 tries at booting, then fails.

The entire console output from power-on is (blank lines removed):

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(22r)YB5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

C880 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

Readonly ROMMON initialized

monitor: command "ls" not found

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(22r)YB5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

C880 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

Readonly ROMMON initialized

monitor: command "ls" not found

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(22r)YB5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

C880 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

Readonly ROMMON initialized

monitor: command "ls" not found

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(22r)YB5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

C880 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

Readonly ROMMON initialized

$$

At this point it will not accept, or at least will not echo back anything I type. Takes a while, then responds - I was too impatient!

Has anyone got any advice?

Thanks

Colin

colintaylor · ‎05-10-2013

See the following - I'd have expected the unit to boot at this point?

$$ dir flash:

Directory of flash:

2 28443564 -rw- c880data-universalk9-mz.150-1.M2.bin

$$ boot flash:c880data-universalk9-mz.150-1.M2.bin

monitor: command "ls" not found

$$

pbballa01 · ‎02-07-2017

I'm having this issue on a 1941, was this ever fixed?

Leo Laohoo · ‎05-10-2013

That's all it does?

colintaylor · ‎05-10-2013

Yeah. I think I fixed it now.

Found that an alias had been set.

$$ alias

r=repeat

h=h

story=?

help=b

boot=ls

So unaliased it

$$ unalias boot

Let's try booting again:

$$ dir flash:

Directory of flash:

2 28443564 -rw- c880data-universalk9-mz.150-1.M2.bin

$$ boot flash:c880data-universalk9-mz.150-1.M2.bin

program load complete, entry point: 0x80020000, size: 0x1b2020c

Self decompressing the image :

#############################################...### [OK]

Wrong IOS image for the router

So - loaded a clean imaged over TFTP (tftpdnld)

Boots OK now.

Now I need to find out how it got like that :/