There are ROMMON upgrades for the Sup720. However it sounds like you have a problem with the NVRAM. It sounds like the older NVRAM was not flash based and the battery has died. It may be possible to replace the battery if it isn't part of the NVRAM unit and isn't soldered to the Sup720.
LR Mack McBride Network Architect Viawest, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Rathlev Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] 6500/Sup720 losing "startup-config" I have an old (~7 years) Sup720 PFC3BXL that has been running fine for all it's life and is now to act as a secondary node in a new place. I've loaded it with the new config and new IOS and (soft) reloaded a couple of times; no problems there. But when I "hard" reload it (i.e. take away power) the startup-config and ROMMON parameters disappear. It's completely reproducible, every time I take away power it has no startup-config and the ROMMON settings are the default settings. When booting up it writes the following message on the console: - RELIABILITY DRIVER: wrong signature on NVFLASH It smells like a battery of some kind run dry, combined with the NVRAM not being flash based. Anybody have a clue about what I could do? Other than have it replaced? :-) I was thinking about a ROMMON upgrade (it's using 12.2(14r)S1 now, newer boxes we have run 12.2(17r)SX5) but have only found documentation that suggests that you can't ROMMON upgrade a Sup720. I'm not sure why it would help though. -- Peter _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
