Upgrade Cisco 4507R IOS from 12.2 to 15.0.2

[elaz76213]

Dear All,

I am new to switching, I have a Catalyst 4507R switch (cat4000-I9S-M), Version 12.2(18)EW.

I would like to know if there are any bugs related to this version. Could you please tell if it is the case?

I would also like to upgrade the ios to Version 15.0.2. Could you please tell me if it is possible to do this upgrade? or if there is a recommanded upgrade path?

Thanks in advance.

[Reza Sharifi]

What sup do you have?

HTH

[elaz76213]

Hello Reza,

I am sorry to ask, but what do you mean by sup ? thanks in advance.

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

Sorry, sup is short for supervisor module.

 HTH

[balaji.bandi]

what is supervisor module you have in that chasis

provide show version, and show modules for reference. so we can suggest the steps.

[elaz76213]

Hereunder are the supervisors I have and the result of show version:

1 2 1000BaseX (GBIC) Supervisor(active) WS-X4515
2 2 1000BaseX (GBIC) Supervisor(standby) WS-X4515

show version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) Catalyst 4000 L3 Switch Software (cat4000-I9S-M), Version 12.2(18)EW, E ARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 02-AUG-04 02:04 by xptuae
Image text-base: 0x00000000, data-base: 0x010B0624

ROM: 12.1(12r)EW
Dagobah Revision 90, Swamp Revision 28

xptuae-4507R uptime is 4 week, 1 day, 21 hours, 3 minutes
System returned to ROM by RPR Switchover
System restarted at 15:06:22 PARIS-ETE Tue Aug 01 2019
System image file is "bootflash:cat4000-i9s-mz.122-18.EW.bin"

cisco WS-C4507R (MPC8245) processor (revision 7) with 524288K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID FOX061000GS
Last reset from Reload
5 Virtual Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
144 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
52 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
403K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

For your sup, the latest IOS is this

cat4500-entservicesk9-mz.150-2.SG11.bin

You may also want to upgrade the Rommon to this version.

Release 12.2(31r)SGA4 

HTH

[elaz76213]

Thank you Reza for the reply.

could you please provide the upgrade paths. As I am new to this, I will need the detailed steps to do the upgrade..

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

Follow below guide for ROM upgrade and later IOS upgrade.

make sure you take backup of currnet config out of the box.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/release/note/OL_24727.html

[Leo Laohoo]

Read the Release Notes of the firmware you want to go to because it has a list of known and fixed bugs.
And as what Reza stated, you'll need a mandatory ROMMON upgrade before an IOS upgrade can be done.

[elaz76213]

Thank you all for your help. I will try the suggested steps.