4500X issue with BootedFileName=bootflash:cat4500e

[samir khoury]

Hello,

I am having issue implementing VSS on a 4500x, I noticed the Switch comes with (universalk9.SPA.03.03.02.SG.151-1.SG2.bin) image. VSS require 3.4 or higher. so I copied this image (cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.05.01.E.152-1.E1.bin,12;) to bootflash,

it still would boot into the 3.3 IOS, then after some searching I saw that the ROMMON need to be set with the 3.5 IOS to boot. I did that but the switch would still boot into 3.3

I noticed that the BootedFileName is set to 3.3, so I tried to change it to 3.5 but that would not take.

please help figure out how to save the boot to use 3.5 IOS

below is what my ROMMON boot looks like

BOOT=bootflash:cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.05.01.E.152-1.E1.bin,12;

BootedFileName=flash1:/USER/cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.03.02.SG.151-1.SG2.bin

this is what I am trying to accomplish.

BootedFileName=bootflash:cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.05.01.E.152-1.E1.bin,12;

thank you

[Leo Laohoo]

WARNING:  Make sure you check the MD5 hash value of the new IOS against the MD5 hash value found in the Cisco website.  If the MD5 hash value doesn't match then the file could potentially be corrupt.

conf t

no boot system flash:cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.03.02.SG.151-1.SG2.bin

boot system flash:cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.05.01.E.152-1.E1.bin

boot system flash:cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.03.02.SG.151-1.SG2.bin

end

wr

reload

[samir khoury]

I tried to fix the ROMMON to use the 3.5 IOS, but now it will start loading it then it says an error about the VSS and fails back to rommon prompt, it seems that something broke and it is stuck. below is the output from rommon, and some messges that may help.

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rommon 1 >set
 PS1=rommon ! >
 RommonVer=15.0(1r)SG11
 SupportedFeatures=1
 Fa1Enable=1
 DiagMonitorAction=Normal
 VS_SWITCH_NUMBER=2
 BootStatus=Failure
 ConfigReg=0x2100
 RET_2_RCALTS=730944000
 confreg=0x2102
 BootedFileName=flash1:/USER/cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.05.01.E.152-1.E1.bin
 ConsecPostPassedCnt=30
 RET_2_RTS=06:40:16 UTC Tue Feb 24 2015

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Switch is booting up in VSS mode but               *
* VSS DomainId is not set                            *
* Autoboot is disabled and now dropping into ROMMON. *
*                                                    *
* clear VS_SWITCH_NUMBER rommon variable to boot     *
* the switch in standalone mode.                     *
* If the switch is to work in VSS mode, please do    *
* the standalone to VSS conversion again.          

Feb 24 06:40:15.836: %C4K_IOSVSLENCR-3-VSLPMKKEYSTOREERROR: Failed to open PMK keystore file.
*Feb 24 06:40:16.005: %RF-5-RF_RELOAD: Self Reload. Reason: VSS Domain Id is not configured
*Feb 24 06:40:16.226: %SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested by Platform redundancy manager. Reload Reason: VSS Domain Id is not configured.
<Tue Feb 24 06:40:16 2015> Message from sysmgr: Reason Code:[3] Reset Reason:Reset/Reload requested by [console]. [Reload command]
FAILURE: syslogd shutdown
FAILURE: rpc.mountd shutdown

[samir khoury]

I figured out what my issues were.

I fixed the rommon and the config files.

thanks for your help