01-25-2010 08:42 AM - edited 03-06-2019 09:26 AM
Hi,
When ever I power up the 4500, it goes to ROMMON and sits there until I manually type in "boot" and hit enter. After the manual boot, everything seems to work fine. This switch hasn't been used for awhile so I am not sure what/who caused this to happen. Since it does boot, I know the image is there and OK. I have tried running boot system flash cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin command multiple times but it keeps booting into ROMMON mode.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
*** Sho Vers:
Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500-IPBASE-M), Version 12.2(31)SGA6, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 31-Mar-08 21:23 by chendah
Image text-base: 0x10000000, data-base: 0x114B115C
ROM: 12.2(31r)SGA1
Dagobah Revision 226, Swamp Revision 32
Switch uptime is 0 minutes
Uptime for this control processor is 1 minute
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "bootflash:cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin"
cisco WS-C4507R-E (MPC8245) processor (revision 14) with 524288K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID FOX1247GU5W
MPC8245 CPU at 333Mhz, Supervisor IV
Last reset from PowerUp
1 Virtual Ethernet interface
44 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
403K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
Configuration register is 0x2102
*** BootFlash:
-#- ED ----type---- --crc--- -seek-- nlen -length- ---------date/time--------- name
1 .. image 03EDCAC2 C25744 33 12211908 Nov 29 2008 11:45:41 +00:00 cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin
49129660 bytes available (12212036 bytes used)
-------- F I L E S Y S T E M S T A T U S --------
Device Number = 0
DEVICE INFO BLOCK: bootflash
Magic Number = 6887635 File System Vers = 10005 (1.5)
Length = 3C00000 Sector Size = 80000
Programming Algorithm = 6 Erased State = FFFFFFFF
File System Offset = 80000 Length = 3A80000
MONLIB Offset = 100 Length = 2AE60
Bad Sector Map Offset = 7FFF1 Length = F
Squeeze Log Offset = 3B00000 Length = 80000
Squeeze Buffer Offset = 3B80000 Length = 80000
MONLIB Version = 0 (0.0)
Num Spare Sectors = 0
Spares:
STATUS INFO:
Writable
NO File Open for Write
Complete Stats
No Unrecovered Errors
No Squeeze in progress
USAGE INFO:
--More-- Bytes Used = BA5744 Bytes Available = 2EDA8BC
Bad Sectors = 0 Spared Sectors = 0
OK Files = 1 Bytes = BA56C4
Deleted Files = 0 Bytes = 0
Files w/Errors = 0 Bytes = 0
Solved! Go to Solution.
01-26-2010 08:34 AM
Variable from ROMMON
rommon 8 >set
PS1=rommon ! >
RommonVer=12.2(31r)SGA1
BSI=0
PV=
SV=
IS=0
DiagMonitorAction=Normal
ConfigReg=0x2102
BOOTLDR=bootflash:cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin
BOOT=,1;bootflash:cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin,1;flash:cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin,12;
ConsecPostPassedCnt=21
RANDOM_NUM=682707792
RET_2_RTS=08:17:26 UTC Tue Jan 26 2010
RET_2_RCALTS=1264493846
BootedFileName=?
01-26-2010 08:36 AM
Hi Sudip
Can you remove these commands:
boot system flash
boot system flash:cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin
and just have one command with booting the sytem from bootflash ?
Raj
01-26-2010 10:05 AM
Thanks Raj. That fixed it.
Do you happen to know what file i need to delete to remove the vlans that are on there right now?
01-26-2010 10:07 AM
It's vlan.day
On 26 Jan 2010, at 18:06, "sudip.acharya1"
01-26-2010 10:14 AM
Chris,
I thought it was vlan.dat too but the system cant find it when i try to delete it.
I am not sure where else it would keep it.
01-26-2010 10:18 AM
sudip.acharya1 wrote:
Chris,
I thought it was vlan.dat too but the system cant find it when i try to delete it.
I am not sure where else it would keep it.
Do a "dir /all" on the switch.
Jon
01-26-2010 10:14 AM
Do you want to remove all VLANs and erase all configs ? as chris suggested, u need to look at vlan.dat file stored in flash/bootflash..
01-26-2010 10:26 AM
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2010.01.26 13:22:09 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
Switch#dir /all
Directory of bootflash:/
1 -rwx 12211908 Nov 29 2008 11:45:41 +00:00 cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin
61341696 bytes total (49129660 bytes free)
Switch#
01-26-2010 10:31 AM
It's in
Cat4000_flash
So del cat4000_flash:vlan.dat
On 26 Jan 2010, at 18:27, "sudip.acharya1"
01-26-2010 10:32 AM
sudip.acharya1 wrote:
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2010.01.26 13:22:09 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
Switch#dir /all
Directory of bootflash:/1 -rwx 12211908 Nov 29 2008 11:45:41 +00:00 cat4500-ipbase-mz.122-31.SGA6.bin
61341696 bytes total (49129660 bytes free)
Switch#
Okay, that didn't work
vlan.dat on 4500 is stored in cat4000_flash: so do a "dir cat4000_flash:" to check it is there and then delete it.
Jon
01-26-2010 10:32 AM
Hi Sudip
can you try dir cat4000_flash: ?
Refer to this URL for more info on how to delete and recover vlan.dat files.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps5213/products_tech_note09186a0080a49dbf.shtml
Hope this helps.. all the best
Raj
01-26-2010 10:35 AM
Hi,
Yes the vlan.dat file is in cat4000_flash but permisson is denied when I try to delete.
01-26-2010 10:39 AM
You need to use "erase" rather than "delete" ie. "erase cat4000_flash:vlan.dat
Jon
01-26-2010 10:53 AM
Thank you everyone for you help.
01-26-2010 10:40 AM
Sudip
you can probably try erasing cat4000_flash, since that is the only file there.. check if you have any more files before erasing..
erase cat4000_flash
will remove your vlan.dat file
Raj
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