Catalyst 6504-E Rommon / Boot to IOS

[afmiller1]

Running a 6504-E with a Sup720B card that has a flash card in disk0: with the IOS s72033-adventerprise_wan-mz.122-33.SXI13.bin. When the switch is powered on / rebooted it always goes into rommon. It is trying to load an image from the bootflash: which is wrong. How do you get it to autoboot from disk0: ?

Thanks

[Reza Sharifi]

Does the image exist on the bootflash?

Have a look at this document:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-6000-series-switches/17050-14.html#recprocedure

HTH

[afmiller1]

an SXD image is on the bootflash:, which is not the correct one. Bootflash does not have the storage to contain the IOS for it, which is why its on disk0:

[Jon Marshall]

What does "sh boot" show ? 

You should be able to set it with - 

boot system flash disk0:s72033-adventerprise_wan-mz.122-33.SXI13.bin 

Jon

[afmiller1]

Router#sh boot
BOOT variable = disk0:s72033-adventerprise_wan-mz.122-33.SXI13.bin,12;
CONFIG_FILE variable =
BOOTLDR variable =
Configuration register is 0x2102

Standby not ready to show bootvar

[Reza Sharifi]

boot disk0:s72033-adventerprise_wan-mz.122-33.SXI13.bin

This should work. What error are you getting? 

Issue the dir disk0: command in ROMmon mode in order to verify that disk0 has a valid image in it

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-6000-series-switches/17050-14.html

HTH

[afmiller1]

It sees the image just fine there

[Jon Marshall]

Can you post the output of - 

sh bootvar 

remote command switch sh bootvar 

Jon

[afmiller1]

Router#sh bootvar
BOOT variable = disk0:s72033-adventerprise_wan-mz.122-33.SXI13.bin,1;
CONFIG_FILE variable =
BOOTLDR variable =
Configuration register is 0x2102

Router#remote command switch sh bootvar

BOOT variable = disk0:s72033-adventerprise_wan-mz.122-33.SXI13.bin,1;
CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist
BOOTLDR variable does not exist
Configuration register is 0x0

[Jon Marshall · Accepted solution]

Think that is your problem ie. the configuration register values should be the same on both the RP and the SP. 

From configuration mode on the switch can you enter - 

config-register 0x2102

then rerun the commands I gave in last post and both outputs should show 0x2102 but you will need to reload the switch for it to use the new value.

Jon

[afmiller1]

Works, Thanks!