In some cases, there may be an abnormality in one of the part files of these COS APs, which makes it impossible to convert to Mobility Express. At this time, you will encounter the following error.
################################################################ 89.0%
################################################################ 89.6%
######################################################################## 100.0%
Image downloaded, writing to flash...
[*01/09/2019 14:41:33.9399]
[*01/09/2019 14:41:33.9399] CAPWAP State: Discovery
[*01/09/2019 14:41:33.9399] Discovery Request sent to 192.168.18.2, discovery type STATIC_CONFIG(1)
[*01/09/2019 14:41:33.9499] Discovery Request sent to 255.255.255.255, discovery type UNKNOWN(0)
do PREDOWNLOAD, part2 is active part
tar: btldr.bin.lzma: not found in archive
sh: CHECK_ME: unknown operand
part.bin signature verification failure, exit the script
Error: FILE_SIZE_ZERO, not updating ubi vol
Error: '/etc/capwap-upgrade.sh PREDOWNLOAD' failure.
Check the version of the AP. It can be observed that there is no image file in the backup part of the AP. At this time, it is recommended to fill the backup of the AP with a lightweight AP image.
AP1#show version
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ROM: Bootstrap program is U-Boot boot loader
BOOTLDR: U-Boot boot loader Version 30
AP1 uptime is 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes
Last reload time : Wed Jan 9 14:37:55 UTC 2019
Last reload reason : unknown
cisco AIR-AP1815I-H-K9 ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) with 1015956/850284K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID FGL2225XXXX
AP Running Image : 8.3.111.0
Primary Boot Image : 8.3.111.0
Backup Boot Image : 0.0.0.0
1 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
2 802.11 Radios
Radio FW version : 8edf74e05d634a962e683454e8fc1be2
NSS FW version : not available
Brush a mirror image of the backup area of the AP. Here, take Release 8.5.182 as an example. (Note that the span of the version should not be too large)
LAP#archive download-sw /reload tftp://192.168.18.2/ap1g5-k9w8-tar.153-3.JF15.tar
########### 15.4%[*01/09/2019 14:52:45.2299]
[*01/09/2019 14:52:45.2299] CAPWAP State: Discovery
[*01/09/2019 14:52:45.2399] Discovery Request sent to 255.255.255.255, discovery type UNKNOWN(0)
########################################### 60.8%[*01/09/2019 14:52:54.7299]
[*01/09/2019 14:52:54.7299] CAPWAP State: Discovery
[*01/09/2019 14:52:54.7499] Discovery Request sent to 255.255.255.255, discovery type UNKNOWN(0)
######################################################################## 100.0%
After the AP restarts, you can see that both parts have mirror files.
AP Running Image : 8.5.182.0
Primary Boot Image : 8.5.182.0
Backup Boot Image : 8.3.111.0
1 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
2 802.11 Radios
Radio FW version : 8fd6300a6e46b2e512e1452959ec6814
NSS FW version : not available
When this happens, we will use the ap-type mobility-express command to complete the ME mode conversion.
LAP#ap-type mobility-express tftp://192.168.1.2/AIR-AP1815-K9-ME-8-5-182-0.tar
After the AP image is acquired, it can be started as the ME system.
The system is going down NOW!
Sent SIGTERM to all processes
Sent SIGKILL to all processes
Requesting system reboot99]
[08/30/2021 05:05:24.3599] reboot: Restart
Board type: AP1815I
smem ram ptable found: ver: 1 len: 3
U-Boot 2012.07 (btldr release 37) (Jan 07 2021 - 10:16:04)
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DRAM: 1022 MiB
Nand: Detected ONFI Macronix NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit
NAND ECC=4 ECC_THRESHOLD(NAND ECC-1)=3
SF: Detected W25Q32 with page size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
MFG data loaded
Scanning shenv data blocks
Total valid parts=4
Active shenv part[0:1], write_counter=6
machid: 8010001
Net: MAC0 addr:50:2f:a8:96:b6:d0
AR8033 PHY 0
PHY ID1: 0x4d
PHY ID2: 0xd072
ipq40xx_ess_sw_init done
Auto boot mode, use bootipq directly
Hit ESC key to stop autoboot: 0
Specified BOOT: part2
Booting from part2
Read 1024 bytes from volume part2 to 88000000
Read 22070735 bytes from volume part2 to 88000000
Signature returns 0
Image signing verification success, continue to run...
bootm 0x88000400
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 88000400 ...
## Loading init Ramdisk from multi component Legacy Image at 88000400 ...
## Flattened Device Tree from multi component Image at 88000400
Booting using the fdt at 0x89503188
Loading Ramdisk to 9ecc6000, end 9ffff658 ... OK
Loading Device Tree to 9ecba000, end 9ecc5c46 ... OK
no such device nand0
Using machid 0x8010001 from environment
Starting image ...
This method can try to solve the situation where LAP cannot be directly upgraded to ME mode (such as the error mentioned at the beginning of the document).
