Booting From A Melody Compact Flash Adapter Card - Cisco WS-C6506 Software Manual

Chapter 3 Configuring the Switch IP Address and Default Gateway
Before you use a system image that is stored on the supervisor engine Flash PC card, set the BOOTLDR
Note
environment variable. In privileged mode, enter the boot bootldr bootflash:boot_loader_image
command.
To store the system image on the supervisor Flash PC card, change the configuration on the MSFC to
boot the MSFC from the appropriate image on the Flash PC card by adding the following command to
the MSFC configuration:
boot sup-slot0:system_image
In this example, system_image is the name of the desired image on the supervisor Flash PC card.
To boot a system image that is stored on the supervisor engine Flash PC card, at least one VLAN
Note
interface must be configured and active.
By following this recommendation, you do not need to store new system images on the bootflash. If
required, you can update the system image on the bootflash from an image on the supervisor engine
Flash PC card by entering the following commands:
delete bootflash:old_system_image
squeeze bootflash:
copy sup-slot0:new_system_image bootflash:

Booting from a Melody Compact Flash Adapter Card

Catalyst software release 8.7(1) supports Melody Compact Flash memory, replacing the traditional
bootflash memory on Supervisor Engine 720. When a Melody adapter card is detected by the Supervisor
engine, the bootdisk file system is loaded instead of the traditional bootflash file system. The
configuration commands that list bootflash as an option will list the bootdisk if the Melody adapter card
is present. The default location of the crashinfo file is bootdisk instead of bootflash.
The following system messages are displayed when you boot the switch with no Compact Flash memory
present or there is faulty Compact Flash memory on the Melody adapter card:
2007 Dec 14 05:41:14 %SYS-1-SYS_CF_MSG: No CompactFlash found on adapter card
2007 Dec 14 05:48:07 %SYS-1-SYS_CF_MSG: Faulty CompactFlash found on adapter card
If you are using a software version earlier than 8.7(1), which does not have knowledge of the Melody
adapter card but the card is present in the system, the following error messages display when bootflash
is accessed:
Console> (enable) show flash
error = -24
Open device bootflash failed (bad device info block)
Console> (enable) dir bootflash:
error = -24
Open device bootflash failed (bad device info block)
Console> (enable)
The following restrictions must be considered when you use bootdisk:
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The ROMMON must be upgraded to 8.4(2) or a later release to boot the switch from the Melody
Compact Flash memory card.
The deleted files cannot be recovered; the squeeze command is not supported.
Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Software Configuration Guide—Release 8.7
Booting from a Melody Compact Flash Adapter Card
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