Operating Notes About Booting; Rebooting The Switch - HP PROCURVE 2520 Management And Configuration Manual

Switch Memory and Configuration
Using Primary and Secondary Flash Image Options
2.
Figure 6-11. Example of Erase Flash Prompt
3.
4.
ProCurve(config)# show flash
Figure 6-12. Example of Show Flash Listing After Erasing Primary Flash

Rebooting the Switch

Operating Notes about Booting

Default Boot Source. The switch reboots from primary flash by default
unless you specify the secondary flash by entering either the boot system flash
[primary | secondary] or boot set-default flash [primary | secondary] command.
Both the boot command and the reload command will reboot based on how
these options have been selected.
Boot Attempts from an Empty Flash Location. In this case, the switch
aborts the attempt and displays
Interaction of Primary and Secondary Flash Images with the Current
Configuration. The switch has one startup-config file (page 6-3), which it
always uses for reboots, regardless of whether the reboot is from primary or
secondary flash. Also, for rebooting purposes, it is not necessary for the
software image and the startup-config file to support identical software fea­
tures. For example, suppose you have just downloaded a software upgrade
that includes new features that are not supported in the software you used to
create the current startup-config file. In this case, the software simply assigns
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Then erase the software image in the selected flash (in this case, primary):
Type y at the prompt to complete the flash erase.
Use show flash to verify erasure of the selected software flash image
Compressed Primary Code size
Compressed Secondry Code size = 1555803
Boot Rom Version:
Current Boot:
Image does not exist
Operation aborted.
The prompt shows which flash
location will be erased.
= 0
W.14.01
Secondary
0
The " " here
shows that
primary flash has
been erased.