ios upgrade soho78 won't work

Oct 30, 2006 3 Replies

Hi all,



I've been trying to upgrade 2 soho78 to the latest ios version 124(5)b. The new image is uploaded fine, but after the reboot the system complains about lack of memory. I've checked the requirements and they haven't changed between the old version and the new version. See attached file for output during reboot. Can't make a case cause we don't have a smartnet contract for this model and won't get one, to old.


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wouter schrieb:

Have you tried lowering buffer mem to free up some more processor mem?

memory-size iomem 5

Hmm,

Well, this would seem like a nice solution, but I think this only starts working after ios has at least loaded once successfully, correct me if I'm wrong here. I can't find the place to enter this command under the working IOS (12.2(4)XM). Another thing that caught my eye is the grafical representation of the decompressing image when it is loaded for the first time. See attached file. There are way less hashes before the [OK] than in the working IOS. I wonder if this signifies something important. Cause even though the new image is larger, it stops decompresses much faster, Or at least says it does. I've tried other version between the working one and the newest, same result.

Regards Wouter

begin 666 SOHO78_error_ios_upgrade1.txt M4WES=&5M($)O;W1S=')A

If all that is stopping this process is that you need to get the iomem command into the startup config then you could proceed as follows.

copy start tftp

edit the file to put in the command

copy tftp start

The old ios may not recognise the command but will load anyway ignoring the unrecognised command.

One possible issue is that the tftp'd file uses UNIX style NewLine characters i.e. one LF (ASCII 10) On Windows this will cause you some trouble but there are ways to deal with it. Ask of you need frther assistance.

The file will load nicely into Wordpad, when you save it it will have DOS NewLines CR-LF pair. 13-10

I have the idea that I recently tested to see if such a file would work if tftp'd back to the router and it did but I can;t recall clearly and I may not actually have tested it.

Ther are many DOS2UNIX and UNIX2DOS tools on the WWW.

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