Resetting The Rsfc From The Switch Cli; Setting The Configuration Register Boot Field - Cisco Catalyst 5000 Series Installation And Configuration Note

Maintaining and Administering the RSFC
Note
in RAM only. To permanently store the system image on the RSFC, you must session to the RSFC
and use the copy command to copy the system image file from the TFTP server to the Flash file
system, as described in the "Downloading a System Image to the RSFC Flash" section on page 19.
To download a new system image to the RSFC using TFTP, perform this task in privileged mode:
Task
Download a system image to the RSFC using TFTP from
the switch CLI.

Resetting the RSFC from the Switch CLI

To reset the RSFC from the switch CLI, perform this task in privileged mode:
Task
Reset the RSFC.
Setting the Configuration Register Boot Field
The configuration register boot field determines whether or not the RSFC loads a system image, and
if so, where it should search for the system image. For more information on the function of the
configuration register boot field, see the "Configuration Register Boot Field" section on page 4.
To set the configuration register boot field value on the RSFC, perform this task in global
configuration mode:
Task
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This example shows how to change the configuration register boot field value to 0x2 (to cause the
RSFC to boot the system image specified by the BOOT variable), given the current configuration
register value of 0x101:
20 Catalyst 5000 Series Route Switch Feature Card Installation and Configuration Note
When you download a system image to the RSFC from the switch CLI, the image is stored
Obtain the current configuration register setting.
Enter configuration mode.
Modify the existing configuration register value.
Change the least significant hexadecimal digit to
a value between 0x0 and 0xF to reflect how you
want the RSFC to load a system image.
Exit configuration mode.
Save the running configuration to NVRAM.
Reboot the RSFC to make your changes take
effect.
Router#show bootvar
BOOT variable =
CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist
BOOTLDR variable does not exist
Configuration register is 0x101
Router#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.
Command
download host_ip_addr filename mod_num
Command
reset mod_num
Command
show bootvar
configure terminal
config-register value
Ctrl-Z
copy running-config startup-config
reload
End with CNTL/Z.