PIX Firewall Image issue

[wanhwai]

Hi,

I am downgrading a PIX Firewall from 7.0 to 6.3. I faced probelm when rebooting the PIX.

The error shown as below,

Booting first image in flash

Image must be at least 7-0-0-0 error in file flash:/pix635.bin

No bootable image in flash. Please download an image from a network server

in the monitor mode

CISCO SYSTEMS PIX FIREWALL

Embedded BIOS Version 4.3.207 01/02/02 16:12:22.73

Compiled by morlee

128 MB RAM

[JORGE RODRIGUEZ · Accepted solution]

Did you follow the exact downgrade procedure shown on this link.. did you point the 6.3.x image as indicated

downgrade tftp://tftpserverip/pix63x.bin

pix downgrade procedure from 7.x to 6.3.x

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa70/pix_upgrade/upgrade/guide/pixupgrd.html#wp1810347

in any case, you can still redownload the 6.3.5 code again from monitor mode.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a0080094a5d.shtml#upbootormon

let us know how it works out.

Rgds

Jorge