Boot Statement in cisco switchs

[rhamdaoui1]

Hi

Im asking about the boot statement in cisco switchs: do we have to write boot system flash:/new-image/new-image.bin or  boot system flash:new-image.bin (i've found the both statements in cisco switchs).

Thanks

rhamdaoui

[Cisco Freak]

It depends on whether you have the bin file inside a folder or not.

Switch#sh boot
BOOT path-list : flash:c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7/c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7.bin

Here I have the bin file inside the folder c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7
Switch#sh flash | i dr
2 drwx 192 Feb 28 1993 16:08:31 -08:00 c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7

You can cd into the directory and list int contents

Switch#cd c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7

Switch#dir

Directory of flash:/c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7/

3 -rwx 681 Feb 28 1993 16:07:26 -08:00 info
4 drwx 4800 Feb 28 1993 16:08:31 -08:00 html
508 -rwx 12098366 Feb 28 1993 16:12:05 -08:00 c3750-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7.bin ---> This is the actual IOS file

32514048 bytes total (16805888 bytes free)
Switch#

[rhamdaoui1]

Thank you very much, its clear now

rhamdaoui