Switch 3650 stack not booting

[#1]

Hello,

I have a remote site switch upgrade on 3650's 16.1.1 to 16.3.3. Most of stacks on site upgraded fine but one stack i have an issue with.

I do not seem to get Rommon prompt or anything past the following:

### Launching Linux Kernel (flags = 0x5)

%IOSXEBOOT-84183d0dc4f4b73fc442a6e3702003f8-new_cksum: (rp/0): 4

%IOSXEBOOT-84183d0dc4f4b73fc442a6e3702003f8-saved_cksum: (rp/0): 4

Aug 9 09:34:28.812 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process btrace_rotate_sh

Aug 9 09:34:30.602 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process epc_ws_liaison

Aug 9 09:34:32.403 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process fed

Aug 9 09:34:35.107 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process btrace_rotate_sh

Aug 9 09:34:36.936 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process epc_ws_liaison

Aug 9 09:34:38.752 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process fed

I do not have anyone on site to hold down the mode button yet. This also does this on every switch in the stack.

[Leo Laohoo]

Can you post the entire boot-up process?

[#3]

This is the entire boot process...

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Booting...

Interface GE 0 link down***ERROR: PHY link is down

The "IP_ADDR" environment variable is not set.

Getting rest of image

Reading full image into memory...Check base package header ...: done = 16384

Getting rest of image

Reading full image into memory....done

Reading full base package into memory...: done = 22173639

Bundle Image

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Kernel Address : 0x53740388

Kernel Size : 0x34e760/3467104

Initramfs Address : 0x53a8eae8

Initramfs Size : 0x117e4df/18343135

Compression Format: mzip

Bootable image at @ ram:0x53740388

Bootable image segment 0 address range [0x81100000, 0x81b8adc0] is in range [0x80180000, 0x90000000].

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@boot_system:

518

Loading Linux kernel with entry point 0x81690280 ...

Bootloader: Done loading app on core_mask: 0xf

### Launching Linux Kernel (flags = 0x5)

%IOSXEBOOT-84183d0dc4f4b73fc442a6e3702003f8-new_cksum: (rp/0): 4

%IOSXEBOOT-84183d0dc4f4b73fc442a6e3702003f8-saved_cksum: (rp/0): 4

Aug 9 13:05:06.340 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process btrace_rotate_sh

Aug 9 13:05:07.886 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process epc_ws_liaison

Aug 9 13:05:09.676 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process fed

Aug 9 13:05:12.225 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process btrace_rotate_sh

Aug 9 13:05:13.862 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process epc_ws_liaison

Aug 9 13:05:16.379 R0/0: %PMAN-3-PROC_EMPTY_EXEC_FILE: Empty executable used for process fed

[Leo Laohoo]

Is this switch connected to a stack or not?  If it is, power down the switch, disconnect from the stack and then power it up.  

[#5]

Yes, it is stacked. I had the other switches powered down via a switched PDU and same results. What I was able to figure out was after I had someone hold down the mode button for me, I was able to look at the files in flash and there were a couple .conf files. The expected flash:packages.conf which it was booting and failed/corrupted and a flash:cat3k_caa-universalk9.16.03.03.SPA.conf file which I booted and came up properly. 

Apparently the install process felt the need to install it's own .conf file and not change the boot. Question is can I delete the packages.conf file and rename the new one to packages and still work?