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Hello,I have a 6506 with a Sup 2 and MSFC2. My new offsider was trying to upgrade the Sup from CatOS to IOS (very unwisely - without the documentation). He deleted the CatOS before copying the IOS to the Sup. On bootup we have the following output:Sy...
Howdy all,Things are going well now. I managed to boot from an older CatOS image on slot0: and have rescued the sup. Thanks to all those who helped - the only silly idea is the one not expressed.Cheers,Craig
I've contacted a colleague about the IOS images and if possible the CatOS as well - might as well cover all of the bases. As soon as I try them - I'll post the results. Thanks for taking the time to help.Ctraig
Hey Brian,I figured that 'skinny' was similar to 'barebones', now I know. I pulled a good sup from our live system and it works fine by itself in the spare chassis. Setting up a good sup and the bad one redundantly doesn't help. The good sup doesn...
Hi amike25,The IOS I'm using is the same as our live version. I formatted the flash card in a live 6500 Sup2 of the same type and version (firmware and IOS) first time around but to no avail.I'm unable to copy the IOS from slot0: to bootflash: as th...
Hi blakelyholman,Thanks for your suggestion. The conversion doc is no help as it assumes that you are able to boot the IOS. My problem starts at Step 15 - the IOS decompresses and then the errors start to flow (see my previos posts). Besides that - ...
