Cisco MDS-9124 Troubleshooting Guide - Page 72

Troubleshooting Cisco SAN-OS Software System Reboots Chapter 2 Troubleshooting Installs, Upgrades, and Reboots Send documentation comments to [email protected] Recovering Both Supervisor Modules With Corrupted Bootflash If both supervisor modules have corrupted bootflash, follow these steps: Step 1 Boot the switch and press the Esc key after the BIOS memory test to interrupt the boot loader. Note Press Esc immediately after you see the following message: 00000589K Low Memory Passed 00000000K Ext Memory Passed Hit ^C if you want to run SETUP.... Wait..... If you wait too long, you will skip the boot loader phase and enter the kickstart phase. You see the loader> prompt. Caution The loader> prompt is different from the regular switch# or switch(boot)# prompt. The CLI command completion feature does not work at this prompt and may result in undesired errors. You must type the command exactly as you want the command to appear. Tip Use the help command at the loader> prompt to display a list of commands available at this prompt or to obtain more information about a specific command in that list. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Specify the local IP address and the subnet mask for the switch. loader> ip address 172.16.1.2 255.255.255.0 Found Intel EtherExpressPro100 82559ER at 0xe800, ROM address 0xc000 Probing...[Intel EtherExpressPro100 82559ER]Ethernet addr: 00:05:30:00:52:27 Address: 172.16.1.2 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Server: 0.0.0.0 Gateway: 0.0.0.0 Specify the IP address of the default gateway. loader> ip default-gateway 172.16.1.1 Address: 172.16.1.2 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Server: 0.0.0.0 Gateway: 172.16.1.1 Boot the kickstart image file from the required server. loader> boot tftp://172.16.10.100/kickstart-latest Address: 172.16.1.2 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Server: 172.16.10.100 Gateway: 172.16.1.1 Booting: /kick-282 console=ttyS0,9600n8nn quiet loader_ver= "2.1(2 Image verification OK Starting kernel... 2-24 Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x OL-9285-05