Upgrade gone wrong?

I tried upgrading my 501 from 5.2(3) to 6.0(4). I used the copy tftp flash
method, which appeared to complete successfully. The 501 will not now boot
up fully. I get the option to escape to monitor mode, but if I try to boot
from flash I see the following:

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt flash boot.

Use SPACE to begin flash boot immediately.

Flash boot in 10 seconds.           9 seconds.  
       8 seconds.          7 seconds.

Reading 2482688 bytes of image from flash.

16MB RAM
Ignoring PCI card in slot:0 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:1 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:2 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:3 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:4 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:5 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:6 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:7 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

Ignoring PCI card in slot:8 (vendor:0x1022 deviceid:0x3000 revisionid:0x0)

No system flash found.
No thread name

Traceback:
0: 800bf6d4
1: 8000081c
2: 80000223

Is there any way out of this???

thanks,
Bobby

 

I may not be much help. I don't know a 501. On other
routers you can get to rommon mode by pressing break
from the console port during the first few seconds of
the boot process. If you get to a rommon prompt type
? or 'set'. Do you have a tftpdnld command? If so then
set the apprpriate environment variables and then
execute tfpdnld. Executing tftpdnld without the variables
set will show you what parameters are needed.

 

: I may not be much help. I don't know a 501. On other
: routers you can get to rommon mode by pressing break
: from the console port during the first few seconds of
: the boot process.

The 501 is a PIX firewall.


:Bobby wrote:
:> I tried upgrading my 501 from 5.2(3) to 6.0(4). I used the copy tftp flash
:> method, which appeared to complete successfully. The 501 will not now boot
:> up fully.

The first software release that supported the 501 was 6.1(1).
You could not have been running 5.2(3) on a PIX 501, but you might
have been running 6.2(3). If you tried to "upgrade" to 6.0(4)
then you would end up with a software release that doesn't know how
to handle the smaller memory size of the PIX 501.

On related notes: software release 5.2(3) supported the PIX 506 and PIX
515, but did not yet support the 506E or 515E, which require a
minimum of 5.3(3). 5.3(3) was later than 6.0(1), so the first 6.x
release to support the 506E and 515E was 6.0(2). Upgrading a 506E
or 515E to 6.0(4) should work.

 

Try re-loading a different version of pix os on there. go for 6.3

thanks,
-Brad Ellis
CCIE#5796 (R&S / Security)
Network Learning Inc
brad at eccie.com
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