ios/config trouble

Alright so I tried out the erase startup-config. There was alot of junk in there that I didn't use. I made sure that I saved a copy of that configuration. I made a new configuration and saved that as 3640router-confg-new to the tftp server on my desktop. Then I found an IOS on the flash card that my 3640 has so I tried to boot into that and now I can't get back to the old IOS that's actually on the router. The laptop that is connected by roll over cable is now giving me all these errors of trying to open configuration files from my tftp server!!! It actually loaded a configuration file from the server by itself!!! Now (as in right now as I type) it's looking for other config files. "Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg" and cisconet.cfg timed out. Now I can't even copy any IOS into the tftp server from the 3640. I was able to copy the IOS off the 2621 at 14kbps. Why so slow over fastethernet?? Does anyone have any ideas what I messed up??? Everything worked fine before I tried to boot from the IOS on the flash card.

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mgeorge

When the router does not have a configuration located in NVRAM, it will attempt to pull a config from a local server which is resolved via broadcast.

Once you save a basic config into NVRAM you will not see this issue after you reload.

If you loaded IOS from a PCMCIA card then you should copy a new IOS image to flash: and reload the device, be sure to pull out the PCMCIA flash card.

If your router boots into rommon> after you remove the PCMCIA flash card, from rommon> you can use the command boot flash: and it will boot the first image found in flash.

jamesleecoleman

I had the basic configuration saved on the router. I took the card out and rebooted the router because I did see an IOS in the flash on the router. It took me to rommon> (noodles :P) but I couldn't get it from there. The flash card has the "c3640-js-mz.122-14.bin"

Could it be that it's trying to boot the "no" file seen by the show flash command but I'm not really sure. I tried to find online how to actually boot the IOS but I haven't had any luck.

OPTIONS: I18n
Compiled on Oct 24 2008, 06:37:44.
Port /dev/ttyS0

Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys

System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(20)AA2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

loadprog: bad file magic number: 0x0
open: failed to find and/or load the bootloader: "flash:no"
loadprog: error - on file open
boot: cannot load "c3640-js-mz.122-14.bin"

System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(20)AA2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

loadprog: bad file magic number: 0x0
open: failed to find and/or load the bootloader: "flash:no"
loadprog: error - on file open
boot: cannot load "c3640-i-mz.121-19.bin"

System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(20)AA2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

loadprog: bad file magic number: 0x0
boot: cannot load "flash:"

System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(20)AA2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0xc80080
Self decompressing the image : ################################################]

Smart Init is disabled. IOMEM set to: 10

Using iomem percentage: 10

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 3600 Software (C3640-JS-M), Version 12.2(17), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 15-May-03 17:04 by srani
Image text-base: 0x60008930, data-base: 0x61450000

cisco 3640 (R4700) processor (revision 0x00) with 59392K/6144K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 17141693
R4700 CPU at 100Mhz, Implementation 33, Rev 1.0
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
TN3270 Emulation software.
Basic Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.
2 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
4 ISDN Basic Rate interface(s)
Integrated NT1's for 4 ISDN Basic Rate interfaces
DRAM configuration is 64 bits wide with parity disabled.
125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)
16384K bytes of processor board PCMCIA Slot0 flash (Read/Write)

%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/3640router-confg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/3640rout.cfg (Timed out)

Press RETURN to get started!

00:01:10: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.2d
00:01:48: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.2d
00:02:26: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.2d
00:02:56: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.2d
00:03:04: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.2d
00:03:04: %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted --

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 3600 Software (C3640-JS-M), Version 12.2(17), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 15-May-03 17:04 by srani
00:03:04: %SNMP-5-COLDSTART: SNMP agent on host 3640router is undergoing a coldt
00:03:08: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0/0, changed stp
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out)
00:03:34: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.2d
CTRL-A Z for help | 9600 8N1 | NOR | Minicom 2.3 | VT102 | Offline

3640router#show flash

System flash directory:
File Length Name/status
1 8612 no
2 5126788 c3640-i-mz.121-19.bin
3 323754 crashinfo_20060905-135256
4 359408 crashinfo_20060905-205714
5 347588 crashinfo_20060906-131602
6 351623 crashinfo_20060906-153552
7 335382 crashinfo_20060906-172200
[6853608 bytes used, 1010712 available, 7864320 total]
8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

3640router#show slot0:

PCMCIA Slot0 flash directory:
File Length Name/status
1 13107652 c3640-js-mz.122-17.bin
[13107716 bytes used, 3538428 available, 16646144 total]
16384K bytes of processor board PCMCIA Slot0 flash (Read/Write)

3640router#show version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 3600 Software (C3640-JS-M), Version 12.2(17), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 15-May-03 17:04 by srani
Image text-base: 0x60008930, data-base: 0x61450000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(20)AA2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE ()

3640router uptime is 12 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "slot0:c3640-js-mz.122-17.bin"

*hardware data removed*

Configuration register is 0x2102

3640router#
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/3640rout.cfg (Timed out)
00:13:08: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from (tftp://255.2d
3640router#
CTRL-A Z for help | 9600 8N1 | NOR | Minicom 2.3 | VT102 | Offline

mgeorge

boot the router using the pcmcia card, then once booted, delete the flash:no file.

Then squeze the flash using the "squeeze flash" command. remove the pcmcia flash card and reboot the device.

You can also boot the router from rommon by specifying boot flash:c3640-i-mz.121-19.bin

jamesleecoleman

Thanks mgeorge!!!!

Dilbert65

the tftp error can be fix with this

conf t
no service config
exit
wr
reload
confirm {yes}

This happens all the time on my 2950's and 2600xm's.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps133/products_tech_note09186a008020b19e.shtml