Cisco Systems 12410, 12010 Meaning Source, Line Card Alphanumeric LED Displays-Partial View Shown

Chapter 4 System Startup and Basic System Configuration

Powering On the Router and Observing the Boot Process

Step 6 During the line card boot process, observe the alphanumeric LED displays on each line card (Figure 4-4).

Note The line card boot process occurs immediately after the RP boot process.

The system attempts to boot identical line cards in parallel. Further, the system boots line cards as soon as they are powered on and become available. Each line card displays a sequence similar to those shown in Table 4-2.

Figure 4-4 Line Card Alphanumeric LED Displays—Partial View Shown

Upper alphanumeric

LED display (four digits)

Lower alphanumeric

LED display (four digits)

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Table 4-2 Line Card Alphanumeric LED Display Sequence Examples

LED Display1		Meaning	Source
MROM		The MBus microcode begins to execute; nnnn is the microcode	MBus
nnnn		version number. For example, microcode Version 1.17 appears as	controller
		01172.
LMEM		Low memory on the line card is being tested.	Line card
TEST			ROM monitor
MEM		The size of main memory on the line card is being discovered.	Line card
INIT			ROM monitor
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