Cisco 1841 cannot be booted (due to port mac-address error??)

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.

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(8r)T9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Technical Support:

(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 IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-IPBASE-M), Version 12.4(1c), RELEASE SO FTWARE (fc1) Technical Support:

(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.

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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!