I purchased a 2502 new a couple years, that had no FLASH installed. It had
IP/IPX 10.x booting out of ROM, into RAM. Talk about a head scratcher, I
couldn't figure out how it was working :o)
My first question would be- What does your sho version say ???
Phil
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From: RamG
To:
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: Flash Upgrade Q's [7:1400]
> Hello Gang - Hope some1 can help me on this. I am trying to upgrade ios.
> Following is the detail when command copy is issued.
>
> R2501#copy tftp flash
> You cannot copy to Flash address space while running code from it.
> The procedure below can be used to do the copy by reloading and
> using the ROM-based bootstrap image.
> Refer to the product documentation for a detailed description.
> 1. Save the system configuration (using 'write mem') if necessary.
> 2. Type in 'config term' to enter configuration mode.
> 3. Enter 'config 0x2101' to set the soft configuration register.
> 4. Enter '^Z' to exit configuration mode.
> 5. Enter 'reload' command to reload the system.
> 6. If you have a remote Telnet connection, terminate it, give the
> router some time to reload, then reconnect.
> 7. Enter 'enabled' mode and execute the copy command.
> 8. Repeat steps 2 to 6 above, but this time in step 3, enter
> 'config 0x2102'.
>
> Followed above procedure. Returned with this error.
>
> R2501(boot)>enable
> Password:
> R2501(boot)#copy tftp flash
> ERR: Device in READ-ONLY state
>
> What command to use to change the flash to READ/WRITE state.
>
> Thanks / RamG
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