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copy run start doesn't work and.....
Hope this is in an acceptable forum, this is my current experience with the router.
Admin, if this is in the wrong place could you move it please?
Router is a 871w purchased a while back. Calling Cisco for help is akin to pulling your own teeth with rusty pliers. They are almost Microsoft! >:-(
The reason this all started is that I had had the box sitting around for a while without using it, mainly because I had had headaches with the pervious SDM and couldn't get the box to ping or much of anything else. I couldn't load the sdm because it didn't have enough memory (so the error message said). I got a memory stick to try and alleviate this problem and I decided to work on it again since there was a newer SDM out there. I booted the box and it said that there was no bootable image in flash:/ like I have read about here. I have tried to deal with this with the memory installed and removed with the same results.
With the stick installed it shows 196608 for the memory.
I have tried two different IOS levels:
c870-advsecurityk9-mz.123-14.YT1.bin
and
c870-advsecurityk9-mz.124-11.T1.bin
On each I have gone through the configuration template. On each I have tried to save at Router# using copy run start and also write and write memory. It thinks for a second then shows OK. No error messages. if I do a reload it seems to hold the configuration. If I do a power down restart the system is back to the starting point with nothing that I configured saved.
the and... part
Do I need to upgrade the ROMmon from the 12.3(8)YI to get this to work or would it matter?
Which IOS should I be using? I'm pretty sure I can get one from the guys I bought the box from.
How do I get back to being able to use the SDM since I can't get an IP configured on the switch because it is a L2? I do want to try using the SDM first so I can determine that it was my ignorance and not something physically wrong with the box.
Anybody else had this happen?
I didn't post the configuration because until I can get it to save it doesn't matter.
I have been reading these articles and pouding on this box for 3 or 4 days with no results except frustration with Cisco (the Microsoft of the router hardware world).
If there is an answer here I have not found it. I apologize if this ends up being redundant in some manner.
And one more thing. When I look at the nvram directory I get this:
Directory of nvram:/
120 -rw- 3956 startup-config
121 ---- 1920 private-config
122 -rw- 3956 underlying-config
1 ---- 34 persistent-data
2 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3701.cer
3 -rw- 0 ifIndex-table
4 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3702.cer
5 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3703.cer
6 -rw- 590 IOS-Self-Sig#3704.cer
7 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3705.cer
8 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3706.cer
9 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3707.cer
10 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#1.cer
11 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#2.cer
12 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#3.cer
13 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#4.cer
131072 bytes total (111832 bytes free)
Shouldn't the startup-config be marked as executable? as in rwx?
I'm losing hair fast here.
TIA for your help,
rlj
Admin, if this is in the wrong place could you move it please?
Router is a 871w purchased a while back. Calling Cisco for help is akin to pulling your own teeth with rusty pliers. They are almost Microsoft! >:-(
The reason this all started is that I had had the box sitting around for a while without using it, mainly because I had had headaches with the pervious SDM and couldn't get the box to ping or much of anything else. I couldn't load the sdm because it didn't have enough memory (so the error message said). I got a memory stick to try and alleviate this problem and I decided to work on it again since there was a newer SDM out there. I booted the box and it said that there was no bootable image in flash:/ like I have read about here. I have tried to deal with this with the memory installed and removed with the same results.
With the stick installed it shows 196608 for the memory.
I have tried two different IOS levels:
c870-advsecurityk9-mz.123-14.YT1.bin
and
c870-advsecurityk9-mz.124-11.T1.bin
On each I have gone through the configuration template. On each I have tried to save at Router# using copy run start and also write and write memory. It thinks for a second then shows OK. No error messages. if I do a reload it seems to hold the configuration. If I do a power down restart the system is back to the starting point with nothing that I configured saved.
the and... part
Do I need to upgrade the ROMmon from the 12.3(8)YI to get this to work or would it matter?
Which IOS should I be using? I'm pretty sure I can get one from the guys I bought the box from.
How do I get back to being able to use the SDM since I can't get an IP configured on the switch because it is a L2? I do want to try using the SDM first so I can determine that it was my ignorance and not something physically wrong with the box.
Anybody else had this happen?
I didn't post the configuration because until I can get it to save it doesn't matter.
I have been reading these articles and pouding on this box for 3 or 4 days with no results except frustration with Cisco (the Microsoft of the router hardware world).
If there is an answer here I have not found it. I apologize if this ends up being redundant in some manner.
And one more thing. When I look at the nvram directory I get this:
Directory of nvram:/
120 -rw- 3956 startup-config
121 ---- 1920 private-config
122 -rw- 3956 underlying-config
1 ---- 34 persistent-data
2 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3701.cer
3 -rw- 0 ifIndex-table
4 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3702.cer
5 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3703.cer
6 -rw- 590 IOS-Self-Sig#3704.cer
7 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3705.cer
8 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3706.cer
9 -rw- 580 IOS-Self-Sig#3707.cer
10 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#1.cer
11 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#2.cer
12 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#3.cer
13 -rw- 579 IOS-Self-Sig#4.cer
131072 bytes total (111832 bytes free)
Shouldn't the startup-config be marked as executable? as in rwx?
I'm losing hair fast here.
TIA for your help,
rlj
Posted by rlj@...
Updated - 2nd Mar 2007
