Cisco Systems CISCO7201 manual Troubleshooting the Upgrade, ROMmon Upgrade Error Messages

Chapter 3 Starting and Configuring the Router

Troubleshooting the Upgrade

System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(20031011:151758) [biff]

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ROM:Rebooted by watchdog hard reset

C7201 platform with 1048576 Kbytes of main memory

Upgrade ROMMON initialized rommon 1 >

Note Loading a known good Cisco IOS image after a ROMmon upgrade is advisable.

Changing Preferences to Change the ROMmon Image

To change the ROMmon image (readonly or upgrade), use one of the following commands to make the change depending on whether you are in Cisco IOS or in ROMmon:

•In Cisco IOS, use the upgrade rom-monitor preference command to change the ROMmon image:

upgrade rom-monitor preference [readonly upgrade] Example:

Router: upgrade rom-monitor preference readonly

You are about to mark ReadOnly region of ROMMON for the highest boot preference.

Proceed? [confirm]

Done! Router must be reloaded for this to take effect.

In ROMmon, use the ROMmon CLI rommon-pref[readonly upgrade] command to change the ROMmon image:

Example:

rommon 2 > rommon-pref readonly

Troubleshooting the Upgrade

This section contains sample error messages that appear if an upgrade fails, or if an upgrade is successful but the upgrade image is corrupted.

ROMmon Upgrade Error Messages

One if these error message appears when the upgrade has failed or if the upgrade image is corrupted:

•ROMmon image is not compatible with ReadOnly image:

Router: upgrade rom-monitor file tftp://00.0.00.0/biff/c7200p-kboot-mz Loading biff/C7200_NPEG2_RMFUR.srec from 00.0.00.0 (via GigabitEthernet0/1):

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OK - 392348 bytes]

ROMMON upgrade aborted; new ROMMON image version is not compatible with ReadOnly

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