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Cisco 1841 cannot be booted (due to port mac-address error??) freesrc 05-27-08
Posted by on May 27, 2008, 12:37 pm
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I am facing the similar problem. After I de-attached and attached the
CF card (with c1841-ipbase-mz.124-1c.bin) during the Cisco 1841 was
being booted, the router could not be booted properly with any WICs.


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System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(8r)T9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
PLD version 0x10
GIO ASIC version 0x127
c1841 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized
program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0xc100

Initializing ATA monitor library.......
program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0xc100

Initializing ATA monitor library.......

program load complete, entry point: 0x8000f000, size: 0xd4a9a0

Self decompressing the image : ##################################=AD
###############
##################################=AD
##################################=AD ############
######## [OK]

Smart Init is enabled
smart init is sizing iomem
ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE
0X003AA110 public buffer pools
0X00211000 public particle pools
0X0002 0X0001A800 Card in slot 0
0X000021B8 Onboard USB

If any of the above Memory Requirements are
"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported
configuration or there is a software problem and
system operation may be compromised.

Allocating additional 7703097 bytes to IO Memory.
PMem allocated: 117440512 bytes; IOMem allocated: 16777216 bytes

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cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134-1706

Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-IPBASE-M), Version 12.4(1c),
RELEASE SO
FTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2005 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 25-Oct-05 17:10 by evmiller
Image text-base: 0x6007ECA0, data-base: 0x61480000

Port Statistics for unclassified packets is not turned on.



<----- Hang up here!!! ----->
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If with CF card runing "c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-15.T3.bin", it
hangs up in the way similar to yours (.... Installed image
archive ....).

I tried to tftpdnld from rommon but it said "get_mac_address(): Search
T_IDPROM_MACADDR (0xc3) failed" and "Illegal MAC address."

If I swapped the unloadable CF cards to another Cisco 1841, it
worked. I pretty sure that the CF cards work correctly.

I just got a now rommon file "C1800_RM2.srec.123-8r.YH12" (IOS) and
see if it can help.

Please give me some suggestions!

Posted by Uli Link on May 27, 2008, 1:24 pm
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freesrc@yahoo.com.hk schrieb:

> If with CF card runing "c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-15.T3.bin", it
> hangs up in the way similar to yours (.... Installed image
> archive ....).
>
> I tried to tftpdnld from rommon but it said "get_mac_address(): Search
> T_IDPROM_MACADDR (0xc3) failed" and "Illegal MAC address."

Pull all WICs from the non-booting 1841.
Are you sure the WICs are genuine Cisco gear?

> If I swapped the unloadable CF cards to another Cisco 1841, it
> worked. I pretty sure that the CF cards work correctly.
>
> I just got a now rommon file "C1800_RM2.srec.123-8r.YH12" (IOS) and
> see if it can help.

This ROMMON file is NOT for the 1841(!!!) but for 180x/181x fixed config
routers.

--
Uli

Posted by on May 28, 2008, 12:52 pm
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On 5$B7n(B28$BF|(B, $B>e8a(B1$B;~(B24$BJ,(B, Uli Link
wrote:
> free...@yahoo.com.hk schrieb:
>
> > If with CF card runing "c1841-advipservicesk9-mz.124-15.T3.bin", it
> > hangs up in the way similar to yours (.... Installed image
> > archive ....).
>
> > I tried to tftpdnld from rommon but it said "get_mac_address(): Search
> > T_IDPROM_MACADDR (0xc3) failed" and "Illegal MAC address."
>
> Pull all WICs from the non-booting 1841.
> Are you sure the WICs are genuine Cisco gear?
>
> > If I swapped the unloadable CF cards to another Cisco 1841, it
> > worked. I pretty sure that the CF cards work correctly.
>
> > I just got a now rommon file "C1800_RM2.srec.123-8r.YH12" (IOS) and
> > see if it can help.
>
> This ROMMON file is NOT for the 1841(!!!) but for 180x/181x fixed config
> routers.
>
> --
> Uli



already tried to get off all WICs and boot the router but still
failed.

any idea for the error "get_mac_address(): Search T_IDPROM_MACADDR
(0xc3) failed" and "Illegal MAC address." during tftpdnld on rommon
mode ?

Posted by Doug McIntyre on May 28, 2008, 1:19 pm
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freesrc@yahoo.com.hk writes:
...
>already tried to get off all WICs and boot the router but still
>failed.

>any idea for the error "get_mac_address(): Search T_IDPROM_MACADDR
>(0xc3) failed" and "Illegal MAC address." during tftpdnld on rommon
>mode ?

Is your cookie valid? Maybe that got whackered? What does 'cookie' look
like from the PROM?

I would think that a corrupt cookie wouldn't let you boot at all, but
maybe this box isn't checking the checksum on it.

If anything, sounds more like a repair job for Cisco to handle, but
there is a page out there on repairing cookies.

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