upgrade asr1001 with boot system flash bootflash:asr***.bin

[dfbnws]

so i upgraded an asr with below command

boot system flash bootflash:/asr***.bin (notice the /)

luckily it went through :) whereas everywhere on support forums and cisco documentation it mentions correct command as

boot system flash bootflash:asr***.bin (notice the missing /)

just want to know if the command i entered is correct and will continue to work during future reboots or i need to fix it?

thanks

[Reza Sharifi]

Usually, the "/" is not needed. If you issue "sh bootvar" do you see the "/" in the booth variable statement?

HTH

[dfbnws]

yes

BOOT variable = bootflash:/asr1001***.bin,1;

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

Either way will do fine.

[BrianTurner3284]

So the problem is actually the word bootflash, but the / certainly appears in the show ver

System returned to ROM by Reload Command
System image file is "bootflash:/asr1000-universalk9.16.09.02.SPA.bin"
Last reload reason: Reload Command

See above ?  Thats after a reboot with the bootvar set like this :

boot system flash asr1000-universalk9.17.03.03.SPA.bin

IOS would normally convert this and work on a 2900 / 2800 / 2600, but the ASR's are different and most of the people here are like me after a reload expected an upgrade router and started to dig, landed here top hit on google and need the right answer...

So after rebooting the ASR for an upgrade and it didn't upgrade, I changed it like he says too above and it worked

boot-start-marker
boot system flash bootflash:/asr1000-universalk9.17.03.03.SPA.bin
boot-end-marker

System image file is "bootflash:/asr1000-universalk9.17.03.03.SPA.bin"
Last reload reason: Reload Command

I think we can all agree  BOOT SYSTEM FLASH BOOTFLASH: is kind of redundant...

They should change the command to boot system bootflash:  the fact that bootflash is a flash system and not tftp or whatever is obvious and should be to the IOS-XE...  Just like copy scp://name:pass@scpserver.net/asrbin.bin bootflash:  has all the context it needs