Making A Compactflash Disk-Based Software Image The Bootable Software Image - Cisco 7304 Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 6 Working with a CompactFlash Disk
If there is no boot system command in the configuration file, the router will try to load the default file
image from the CompactFlash Disk. For more information, see "Rebooting the Router" in the Cisco IOS
Configuration Fundamentals manual.
Making a CompactFlash Disk-Based Software Image the
Bootable Software Image
This section explains how to make a CompactFlash Disk-based Cisco IOS software image a bootable
image.
After you copy a software image to the CompactFlash Disk, use the following series of commands to
make the image bootable (the file named new.image in this example). The software image in this example
is located on the CompactFlash Disk. Note that the config-register command is also a part of this
command sequence because you must set the configuration register to 0x2102 to enable loading an image
from the CompactFlash Disk.
System# config terminal
System(config)# no boot system
System(config)# boot system flash disk0:new.image
System(config)# config-register 0x2102
Ctrl-Z
System# copy system:running-config nvram:startup-config
System# reload
When the system reloads, it boots the image new.image from the CompactFlash Disk.
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The result of this configuration file entry is that the configuration register is set to hexadecimal
0x102. For more information on the configuration register, see the Cisco IOS Configuration
Fundamentals manual.

Making a CompactFlash Disk-Based Software Image the Bootable Software Image

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