Meghna and Kevin,
Kevin made a great point. You need to have that flash upgrade. AND you
need to make sure that who ever installed the 16 MB flash upgrade removed
the old 2 MB flash card. The reboot cycle is a symptom of both these
conditions.
In order to stop the reboot cycles just put a boot disk for the previous
version of PIX OS (in your case I think that's 5.1) in the floppy drive and
power cycle the PIX.
And I agree with Kevin's assessment. The read me docs caution that you
should follow an upgrade path but I too have upgraded from 4.4 directly to
later 5.2 and 5.3 software.
Regards,
Brian
At 12:02 PM 6/26/2001 -0700, Kevin Hart wrote:
>From: "Hart, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 'Meghna Reddy' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: PIX upgrade from 4.4.4 to 6.0.1- boothelper problem
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:21:00 -0400
>
>Hello,
>
>It is possible you may have a bad floppy/boot image.
>I would format a new floppy and rerun the
>rawrite utility to create a new boothelper disk.
>I'm assuming you have sufficient flash memory.
>I believe 5.1.2 would run with 2 meg but 5.2 and
>above require 16 meg.
>
>By the way, I was able to upgrade directly from
>4.4.4 to 5.3.1 without any interim upgrades.
>All of the configuration commands remained intact
>and were interpreted correctly by the new PIX OS.
>
>HTH
>-Kevin
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Meghna Reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:29 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: PIX upgrade from 4.4.4 to 6.0.1- boothelper problem
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to upgrade my PIX 520 from 4.4.4 to 6.0.1.
>Since it is required that the upgrade be done in a
>phased manner, I am trying to upgrade to 5.1.2 to
>5.2.3 to 5.3.2 and finally to 6.0.1 as suggested by
>the CISCO manual and my CISCO sales partner.
>
>I have successfully upgraded to 5.1.2. While i am
>trying to get into the boothelper mode using bh52.bin,
>the PIX goes into a reboot loop because of which i am
>not able to download the next upgrade flash image onto
>the PIX. I dont want to go to my sales partner as a
>call would be booked and an amount has to be incurred
>by the organisation.
>
>Can anyone suggest why this might be happening ??? Is
>there anything that I am missing out ??? Any
>suggestion wrt this question will be really helpful as
>there is already too much pressure to complete the
>upgradation.
>
>REgards.
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