I'm having problems booting a 3745 from the internal flash card. The route r came from ebay with a 32 Meg internal CF card and booted without any prob lems. I installed a new Cisco 64 Meg card (part number 16-2647-02) and ins talled a new version of IOS. The system won't boot from the internal flash card now. I've tried using both erase and format before coping the image to the CF card. I get different error messages at boot time but the same r esult, it won't boot up on it's own. If I use the ROMMON boot command it b oots and runs just fine from both the internal and slot0 CF cards. I've tr ied a couple of different IOS versions and the end result is the same.
System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(6r) [cmong 6r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
c3745 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled
Readonly ROMMON initialized
Checksum failed on c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15.T13.bin
Expected checksum: e107, calculated checksum: ae5b
open: file "c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15.T13.bin" not found
open(): Open Error = -1
loadprog: error - on file open
boot: cannot load "flash:"
System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(6r) [cmong 6r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
c3745 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory
Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled
Checksum error, file not found???? The ROMMON dir command finds the file j ust fine and it boots just fine from the command line:
Readonly ROMMON initialized
rommon 1 > dir flash:
File size Checksum File name
47411732 bytes (0x2d37214) 0xe107 c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15 .T13.bin
rommon 2 > show flash: all
monitor: command "show" not found
rommon 3 > boot flash:
boot: cannot determine first executable file name on device "flash:"
rommon 4 > boot flash:c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15.T13.bin
program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x2d3704c
Self decompressing the image : ############################################ ########################################################################### ########################################################################### ####################################################### [OK]
Smart Init is enabled
smart init is sizing iomem
ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE
0002F7 0X005F3C00 C3745 Mainboard
0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN
0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN
0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN
0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN
0X00660670 public buffer pools
0X00211000 public particle pools
TOTAL: 0X01446AB0
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.
Rounded IOMEM up to: 22Mb.
Using 8 percent iomem. [22Mb/256Mb]
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Cisco IOS Software, 3700 Software (C3745-ADVENTERPRISEK9_SNA-M), Version 12 .4(15)T13, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
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Image text-base: 0x60008930, data-base: 0x637C2AB0
And it works just fine after the manual boot.
Is there something I need to do before or after the format or erase command on the 3745? I got two of the 64 Meg CF cards, the other I put in a 2691 and it works just fine.
Thanks Robert