I have a strange situation with a 2960s. After attempting to upgrade the IOS version to 150-2.SE4, the switch appears to load the image and boot normally, but then seems to fail and start over again to load the image (more slowly the second time). Eventually the boot process fails and leaves you in boot loader mode.
As background, the switch was upgraded from the boot loader mode using this syntax:
archive download-sw tftp://10.10.222.222/c2960s-universalk9-tar.150-2.SE4.tar
Also, the flash was formatted and clean prior to the upgrade.
Pasted below is an abbreviated version of what I'm seeing when the switch tries to boot.
Also pasted below is the output of the "set" command from boot loader mode.
If anyone has seen this movie before and knows how to resolve it, I'd really appreciate your help...
When booting I see this:
Using driver version 1 for media type 1
Base ethernet MAC Address: 38:1c:1a:3a:41:80
Xmodem file system is available.
The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.
Initializing Flash...
mifs[2]: 12 files, 1 directories
mifs[2]: Total bytes : 1806336
mifs[2]: Bytes used : 755200
mifs[2]: Bytes available : 1051136
mifs[2]: mifs fsck took 1 seconds.
mifs[3]: 0 files, 1 directories
mifs[3]: Total bytes : 3870720
mifs[3]: Bytes used : 1024
mifs[3]: Bytes available : 3869696
mifs[3]: mifs fsck took 0 seconds.
mifs[4]: 5 files, 1 directories
mifs[4]: Total bytes : 258048
mifs[4]: Bytes used : 9216
mifs[4]: Bytes available : 248832
mifs[4]: mifs fsck took 1 seconds.
mifs[5]: 5 files, 1 directories
mifs[5]: Total bytes : 258048
mifs[5]: Bytes used : 9216
mifs[5]: Bytes available : 248832
mifs[5]: mifs fsck took 0 seconds.
mifs[6]: 584 files, 19 directories
mifs[6]: Total bytes : 57931776
mifs[6]: Bytes used : 19488256
mifs[6]: Bytes available : 38443520
mifs[6]: mifs fsck took 17 seconds.
...done Initializing Flash.
done.
Loading "flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4.bin"...@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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File "flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4.bin" uncompressed and installed, entry point: 0x3000
executing...
Loading "flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4.bin"...@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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File "flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4.bin" uncompressed and installed, entry point: 0x3000
executing...
Boot process failed...
The system is unable to boot automatically. The BOOT
environment variable needs to be set to a bootable
image.
switch:
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switch: set
BOARD_CONFIG_REV=0
BOOT=flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4/c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE4.bin
CLEI_CODE_NUMBER=COMGZ00ARB
DAUGHTERBOARD_ASSEMBLY_NUM=73-11933-04
DAUGHTERBOARD_REVISION_NUM=A0
DAUGHTERBOARD_SERIAL_NUM=FOC181XXX
DEFAULT_ROUTER=10.10.222.222
IP_ADDR=10.10.222.1/255.255.255.0
MAC_ADDR=38:1C:1A:3A:41:80
MODEL_NUM=WS-C2960S-48FPS-L
MODEL_REVISION_NUM=H0
MOTHERBOARD_ASSEMBLY_NUM=73-11908-09
MOTHERBOARD_REVISION_NUM=A0
MOTHERBOARD_SERIAL_NUM=FOC1XXXXX
POWER_SUPPLY_PART_NUM=341-03XXXX
POWER_SUPPLY_SERIAL_NUM=DCA1XXXX
SDM_TEMPLATE_ID=0
SWITCH_NUMBER=1
SWITCH_PRIORITY=1
SYSTEM_SERIAL_NUM=FOC174XXXX
TAN_NUM=800-30945-04
-- MORE --
TAN_REVISION_NUMBER=C0
VERSION_ID=V04
