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Chapter 4 System Startup and Basic System Configuration
Use the boot flash command with care. Make sure that the flash memory card
Caution
inserted in slot 0 contains a valid Cisco IOS software image; otherwise, you could
instruct the system to boot an invalid image from the flash memory card. Before
entering a boot command, always enter the dir slotn: command to examine the
contents of a flash memory card.
Table 4-3
Command
boot
boot bootflash: filename
boot disk0: filename
boot disk1: filename
boot flash
boot slot0: filename
boot slot1: filename
boot tftp: filename [host]
or
boot [host] filename
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Boot Commands
Manually Booting the System
Purpose
(No argument.) Boots the default image in
NVRAM. This image is loaded into memory
at the factory.
Boots the router using the specified file in
NVRAM.
Boots the file filename from the flash disk in
slot 0.
Boots the file filename from the flash disk in
slot 1.
(Does not specify a particular PCMCIA slot.)
Attempts to boot the router using the first file
from the flash memory card in slot 0.
Boots the specified file from the linear flash
memory card in slot 0.
Boots the specified file from the linear flash
memory card in slot 1.
Boots the router using the specified file and
host name from a TFTP server in the network.
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