Solved: How to boot the router from another identical router - Page 2

flexkikr11 · ‎10-07-2013

Hi Folks,

I was just wondering if it is possible to boot the router from another router which are the same specs. I have two 1841s the first one works magnificent but the second one is giving me a lot of headache. Problems: 2-FEs ports ain't working, CF card slot is intermittent, chances are, you need to cool the router down for couple of hours or so to get it booted up from CF card otherwise it will stuck caught in a looping state boot or I don't know what is it called.

What I was trying to accomplish is connect each other via serial cable and setup ip addresses with /30 mask and then configure the faulty router in rommon to boot it from the other routers cf card slot.

Is it possible you reckon?

Thanking you in advance.

Cheers,

Paul

Pedro Lereno · ‎10-08-2013

Let's assume CF slot is damaged: xmodem upload will not work because it will try to write on CF.

Your router has an usb interface? Could you access it in rommon with "dir usbflash0:" ?

flexkikr11 · ‎10-08-2013

Yes, I just tried but here's the output:

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Correcting the backup nv_flash

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > dir usbflash0:

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

MSCD_StartStop failure in usbflash_mscd_scsi_listener for usbflash0:!

open(): Open Error = -1

dir: cannot open device "usbflash0:"

rommon 2 >

Pedro Lereno · ‎10-08-2013

Try format usb pen device on the other router:

format ?

format usbflash0 ... or usbflash1

copy ios:

copy c1800xxxxxx.bin usbflash1:

then on the damaged one try the dir from rommon, if you see the file try to boot

flexkikr11 · ‎10-08-2013

I just formatted it from working router and copied the ios from my PC on to usb flash

Installed image archive

Cisco 1841 (revision 7.0) with 239616K/22528K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID FHK1224233A

2 FastEthernet interfaces

1 Serial(sync/async) interface

1 ATM interface

1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module

DRAM configuration is 64 bits wide with parity disabled.

191K bytes of NVRAM.

1956816K bytes of USB Flash usbflash0 (Read/Write)

126000K bytes of ATA CompactFlash (Read/Write)

Press RETURN to get started!

*Oct 9 14:26:47.311: %VPN_HW-6-INFO_LOC: Crypto engine: onboard 0 State changed to: Initialized

*Oct 9 14:26:47.315: %VPN_HW-6-INFO_LOC: Crypto engine: onboard 0 State changed to: Enabled

*Oct 9 14:26:49.523: %USB_HOST_STACK-6-USB_DEVICE_CONNECTED: A Full speed USB device has been inserted in port 0.

*Oct 9 14:26:49.903: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface ATM0/0/0, changed state to down

*Oct 9 14:26:49.903: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial0/1/0, changed state to down

*Oct 9 14:26:50.283: %USBFLASH-5-CHANGE: usbflash0 has been inserted!

*Oct 9 14:26:50.899: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/0, changed state to down

*Oct 9 14:26:50.903: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0/1/0, changed state to down

*Oct 9 14:26:51.551: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed state to down

*Oct 9 14:26:53.351: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from memory by console

*Oct 9 14:26:55.231: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed state to administratively down

*Oct 9 14:26:55.231: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface ATM0/0/0, changed state to administratively down

*Oct 9 14:26:55.335: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial0/1/0, changed state to administratively down

*Oct 9 14:26:55.335: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/0, changed state to up

*Oct 9 14:26:57.747: %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted --

Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M), Version 15.1(3)T4, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Compiled Thu 24-May-12 00:36 by prod_rel_team

*Oct 9 14:26:57.751: %SNMP-5-COLDSTART: SNMP agent on host R1 is undergoing a cold start

*Oct 9 14:26:58.091: %CRYPTO-6-ISAKMP_ON_OFF: ISAKMP is OFF

*Oct 9 14:26:58.091: %CRYPTO-6-GDOI_ON_OFF: GDOI is OFF

*Oct 9 14:26:58.091: %CRYPTO-6-ISAKMP_ON_OFF: ISAKMP is OFF

*Oct 9 14:26:58.091: %CRYPTO-6-GDOI_ON_OFF: GDOI is OFF

#############################################################

May your hands spontaneously combust if you attempt to login!

#############################################################

User Access Verification

Password:

R1>en

Password:

R1#sh usbflash0:

-#- --length-- -----date/time------ path

1 47291520 Sep 29 2013 03:08:16 +00:00 c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

1956151296 bytes available (47316992 bytes used)

R1#

Pedro Lereno · ‎10-08-2013

Hi,

With a spare 1841 I made the following experience: removed the CF card, and put the usb pen:

rommon 7 > dir usbflash0:
program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180
Directory of usbflash0:

2 23482572 -rw- c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-21.bin

rommon 8 > boot usbflash0:/c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-21.bin
program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x1664f2c
Self decompressing the image : ################################################################################################
################# [OK]

And booted ok

Can you also boot from usb with rommon command: boot usbflash0:/c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin ?

flexkikr11 · ‎10-08-2013

Still doing it even removing the CF card:

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > dir usbflash0:

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

MSCD_StartStop failure in usbflash_mscd_scsi_listener for usbflash0:!

open(): Open Error = -1

dir: cannot open device "usbflash0:"

rommon 2 >

What type of USB (model, make size) do you use for your router? Is it a Cisco usb one or other brand?

Pedro Lereno · ‎10-08-2013

It is a Kingston Datatraveler 1 GB, formatted by ios.

I have another Kingston Datatraveler 4 GB that does not work, the error is the same like yours.

I don't know if there is a limitation with the capacity of the usb device, but will be difficult to find one with only 1 GB.

flexkikr11 · ‎10-08-2013

Well my one works in IOS but not in rommon. Maybe the rommon doesn't accept USBs with more than 1gb of size. I'll try 512mb tomorrow and let see how I go.

flexkikr11 · ‎10-09-2013

Hi Pedro,

I found a 512mb pen drive, managed to format it with FAT16, copied the latest ios on to it but still no boot. Here's the output:

Compiled Thu 24-May-12 00:36 by prod_rel_team

*Oct 10 13:40:08.991: %SNMP-5-COLDSTART: SNMP agent on host R1 is undergoing a cold start

*Oct 10 13:40:09.331: %CRYPTO-6-ISAKMP_ON_OFF: ISAKMP is OFF

*Oct 10 13:40:09.331: %CRYPTO-6-GDOI_ON_OFF: GDOI is OFF

*Oct 10 13:40:09.331: %CRYPTO-6-ISAKMP_ON_OFF: ISAKMP is OFF

*Oct 10 13:40:09.331: %CRYPTO-6-GDOI_ON_OFF: GDOI is OFF

#############################################################

May your hands spontaneously combust if you attempt to login!

#############################################################

User Access Verification

Password:

R1>en

Password:

R1#sh usbflash0: all

No files on device

522944512 bytes available (0 bytes used)

******** USB Flash Card Geometry/Format Info ********

USB CARD GEOMETRY

Manufacturer Name NA

Model Number

Serial Number

Firmware Revision

Number of Heads 0

Number of Cylinders 0

Sectors per Cylinder 32

Sector Size 512

Total Sectors 0

USB PARTITION 1 INFO

Start Sector 32

Number of Sectors 1021920

Size in Bytes 523223040

File System Type FAT16

Number of FAT Sectors 250

Sectors Per Cluster 16

Number of Clusters 63836

Number of Data Sectors 1021376

Base FAT Sector 1

Base Root Sector 501

Base Data Sector 533

R1#format usbflash0:

Format operation may take a while. Continue? [confirm]y

Format operation will destroy all data in "usbflash0:". Continue? [confirm]y

Format: All system sectors written. OK...

Format: Total sectors in formatted partition: 1021920

Format: Total bytes in formatted partition: 523223040

Format: Operation completed successfully.

Format of usbflash0: complete

R1#copy tftp usbflash0:c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.1.3

Source filename []? c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

Destination filename [c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin]?

Accessing tftp://192.168.1.3/c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin...

Loading c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin from 192.168.1.3 (via FastEthernet0/0): !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!O!!!!!!

[OK - 47291520 bytes]

47291520 bytes copied in 430.668 secs (109810 bytes/sec)

R1#sh usbflash0: all

-#- --length-- -----date/time------ path

1 47291520 Oct 10 2013 13:51:16 +00:00 c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

475652096 bytes available (47292416 bytes used)

******** USB Flash Card Geometry/Format Info ********

USB CARD GEOMETRY

Manufacturer Name NA

Model Number

Serial Number

Firmware Revision

Number of Heads 0

Number of Cylinders 0

Sectors per Cylinder 32

Sector Size 512

Total Sectors 0

USB PARTITION 1 INFO

Start Sector 32

Number of Sectors 1021920

Size in Bytes 523223040

File System Type FAT16

Number of FAT Sectors 250

Sectors Per Cluster 16

Number of Clusters 63836

Number of Data Sectors 1021376

Base FAT Sector 8

Base Root Sector 508

Base Data Sector 540

R1#

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > dir usbflash0:

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

Directory of usbflash0:

2 47291520 -rw- c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

rommon 2 > boot usbflash0:c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x2d19ae0

Self decompressing the image : ########################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### [OK]

Smart Init is enabled

smart init is sizing iomem

ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE

0X003AA110 public buffer pools

0X00211000 public particle pools

0X00020000 Crypto module pools

0X0002 0X0001A800 Card in slot 0

0X000021B8 Onboard USB

If any of the above Memory Requirements are

"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported

configuration or there is a software problem and

system operation may be compromised.

May run out of Processor memory.

PMem required: 130095460 bytes, PMem available: 125863224 bytes

PMem allocated: 125829120 bytes; IOMem allocated: 8388608 bytes

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > boot usbflash0:/c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x2d19ae0

Self decompressing the image : ########################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### [OK]

Smart Init is enabled

smart init is sizing iomem

ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE

0X003AA110 public buffer pools

0X00211000 public particle pools

0X00020000 Crypto module pools

0X0002 0X0001A800 Card in slot 0

0X000021B8 Onboard USB

If any of the above Memory Requirements are

"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported

configuration or there is a software problem and

system operation may be compromised.

May run out of Processor memory.

PMem required: 130095460 bytes, PMem available: 125863224 bytes

PMem allocated: 125829120 bytes; IOMem allocated: 8388608 bytes

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 >

flexkikr11 · ‎10-09-2013

But fortunately, it worked on my good router with the same process as you posted yesterday. Here's the output:

rommon 71 > boot usbflash0:/c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x2d19ae0

Self decompressing the image : ########################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### [OK]

Smart Init is enabled

smart init is sizing iomem

ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE

0X003AA110 public buffer pools

0X00211000 public particle pools

0X00020000 Crypto module pools

0X04C8 0X00077D00 Card in slot 0

0X0002 0X0001A800 Card in slot 1

0X000021B8 Onboard USB

If any of the above Memory Requirements are

"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported

configuration or there is a software problem and

system operation may be compromised.

Allocating additional 12949474 bytes to IO Memory.

PMem allocated: 245366784 bytes; IOMem allocated: 23068672 bytes

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Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M), Version 15.1(4)M, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Compiled Thu 24-Mar-11 13:12 by prod_rel_team

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Installed image archive

Cisco 1841 (revision 7.0) with 239616K/22528K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID FHK1224233A

2 FastEthernet interfaces

1 Serial(sync/async) interface

1 ATM interface

1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module

DRAM configuration is 64 bits wide with parity disabled.

191K bytes of NVRAM.

510960K bytes of USB Flash usbflash0 (Read/Write)

% Crashinfo may not be recovered at flash:crashinfo

% This file system device reports an error

Press RETURN to get started!

*Oct 10 14:17:40.239: %VPN_HW-6-INFO_LOC: Crypto engine: onboard 0 State changed to: Initialized

*Oct 10 14:17:40.243: %VPN_HW-6-INFO_LOC: Crypto engine: onboard 0 State changed to: Enabled

*Oct 10 14:17:42.875: %USB_HOST_STACK-6-USB_DEVICE_CONNECTED: A Full speed USB device has been inserted in port 0.

*Oct 10 14:17:43.211: %SW_VLAN-4-IFS_FAILURE: VLAN manager encountered file operation error: call = ifs_open/read / code = 2595 (No such device)

/ bytes transfered = 0

*Oct 10 14:17:43.243: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface ATM0/0/0, changed state to down

*Oct 10 14:17:43.243: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial0/1/0, changed state to down

*Oct 10 14:17:43.631: %USBFLASH-5-CHANGE: usbflash0 has been inserted!

*Oct 10 14:17:44.239: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/0, changed state to down

*Oct 10 14:17:44.243: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0/1/0, changed state to down

*Oct 10 14:17:44.839: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed state to down

*Oct 10 14:17:46.611: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from memory by console

*Oct 10 14:17:48.511: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/0, changed state to up

*Oct 10 14:17:48.511: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed state to administratively down

*Oct 10 14:17:48.511: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface ATM0/0/0, changed state to administratively down

*Oct 10 14:17:48.511: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial0/1/0, changed state to administratively down

*Oct 10 14:17:50.739: %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted --

Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M), Version 15.1(4)M, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Compiled Thu 24-Mar-11 13:12 by prod_rel_team

*Oct 10 14:17:50.743: %SNMP-5-COLDSTART: SNMP agent on host R1 is undergoing a cold start

*Oct 10 14:17:51.075: %CRYPTO-6-ISAKMP_ON_OFF: ISAKMP is OFF

*Oct 10 14:17:51.075: %CRYPTO-6-GDOI_ON_OFF: GDOI is OFF

*Oct 10 14:17:51.075: %CRYPTO-6-ISAKMP_ON_OFF: ISAKMP is OFF

*Oct 10 14:17:51.079: %CRYPTO-6-GDOI_ON_OFF: GDOI is OFF

#############################################################

May your hands spontaneously combust if you attempt to login!

#############################################################

User Access Verification

Password:

R1>en

Password:

R1#

Pedro Lereno · ‎10-09-2013

Hi,

From your output your damaged router has lesser memory (or damaged memory) then the good one (125M to 240M).

Bad router:

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

May run out of Processor memory.

PMem required: 130095460 bytes, PMem available: 125863224 bytes

PMem allocated: 125829120 bytes; IOMem allocated: 8388608 bytes

Good router

Allocating additional 12949474 bytes to IO Memory.

PMem allocated: 245366784 bytes; IOMem allocated: 23068672 bytes

Cisco 1841 (revision 7.0) with 239616K/22528K bytes of memory.

Do you have lighter ios (less memory requirements) to load in the router? Or for example version 12.4 ?

Regards,

Pedro Lereno

flexkikr11 · ‎10-09-2013

Hi Pedro,

Here's the output of the smaller ios:

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > dir usbflash0:

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

Directory of usbflash0:

2 22103052 -rw- c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-12.bin

rommon 2 > boot usbflash0:/c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-12.bin

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x151426c

Self decompressing the image : ############################################################################################################ [OK]

Smart Init is enabled

smart init is sizing iomem

ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE

0X003AA110 public buffer pools

0X00211000 public particle pools

0X00020000 Crypto module pools

0X0002 0X0001A800 Card in slot 0

0X000021B8 Onboard USB

If any of the above Memory Requirements are

"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported

configuration or there is a software problem and

system operation may be compromised.

Allocating additional 6674071 bytes to IO Memory.

PMem allocated: 118489088 bytes; IOMem allocated: 15728640 bytes

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > still not working even if I put the much smaller ios which is 22mb - c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-12.bin

flexkikr11 · ‎10-09-2013

The bad router uses it's 128mb DRAM (built-in) whereas the router has another 128mb memory module installed in total of 256mb DRAM.

I came up to the conclusion that all the front ports (FEs, CFslot, USB slot) have been damaged for some reason except for console port and the WIC slots, I already tested the two WIC slots before as they are able to connect to good router's serial WIC-T1 that's why I was asking from the very start if it is possible to boot this bad router from another good router via serial (point to point) link.

Cheers,

Paul A

Pedro Lereno · ‎10-09-2013

Hi Paul,

On your second post you tried to boot from an 12.4T image:

Allocating additional 6019660 bytes to IO Memory.
PMem allocated: 119537664 bytes; IOMem allocated: 14680064 bytes

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

And the memory was OK. Now from usb you are trying to boot version 15 with higher memory requirements. Did you tried to boot from usb with 12.4?

Without ios booted, I don't see way to connect to WIC-1T!

Regards,

Pedro Lereno

flexkikr11 · ‎10-09-2013

Hi Pedro,

Here's the output of the smaller ios from USB pen drive with 12.4 ios of 22mb of size:

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > dir usbflash0:

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

Directory of usbflash0:

2 22103052 -rw- c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-12.bin

rommon 2 > boot usbflash0:/c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-12.bin

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x3d180

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0x151426c

Self decompressing the image : ############################################################################################################ [OK]

Smart Init is enabled

smart init is sizing iomem

ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE

0X003AA110 public buffer pools

0X00211000 public particle pools

0X00020000 Crypto module pools

0X0002 0X0001A800 Card in slot 0

0X000021B8 Onboard USB

If any of the above Memory Requirements are

"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported

configuration or there is a software problem and

system operation may be compromised.

Allocating additional 6674071 bytes to IO Memory.

PMem allocated: 118489088 bytes; IOMem allocated: 15728640 bytes

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

flash: CompactFlash not present.

System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(13r)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

PLD version 0x10

GIO ASIC version 0x127

c1841 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized

rommon 1 > still not working even if I put the much smaller ios which is 22mb - c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-12.bin