Cisco 837, flash error messege. Cause for concern?

[xpsuser]

Hi all:

I have bought a cisco 837 off ebay a while ago but just got to configure it now. Everything is fine and dandy, this little thing is impressive.

I say everything, but there is only one thing that bugs me. When I boot it, I get the following message:

% Crashinfo may not be recovered at flash:crashinfo
% This file system device reports an error

Is this cause for concern?

 

[GM2005]

Is it crashing? If not look in the flash for the file crashinfo and delete it. If not check the config for boot statements or any dump configuration. The config may be directing the router to perform a function it can not fulfill.

 

[xpsuser]

Nope, it does not crash, it is as stable as can be!

I can't see the crashinfo file in flash, and as far as I can see, there are no instructions in the config for debug or crashdumps. Am I better off just reformatting the flash and starting from scratch?

 

[burtsbees]

It's not a UNIX box, bro...lol. Did you say that you got it from ebay with nothing (like no config) on it? I have never seen a message like that, but I agree---it looks like the crashinfo file may be corrupt...so I guess try and save the IOS via tftp on your computer and reflash it with the code.

Burt

 

[xpsuser]

Not sure I understand the unix box comment?

I think it had a config on it when I got it, but I reloaded it with the config reg to 0x2142, configured it from scratch, and reset the config reg to 0x2102 after saving the new running config into startup config.

Again, just to be clear, there is no crashinfo file I can see:

myname#sho flash

System flash directory, partition 1:
File  Length   Name/status
  1   9060664  c837-xxxxxxx-mz.123-xx.T.bin
  2   2402     kerry.cfg [deleted]
  3   3052     cliff.cfg [deleted]
  4   2889     good.cfg [deleted]
[9069268 bytes used, 1416488 available, 10485756 total]
10240K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)


System flash directory, partition 2:
File  Length   Name/status
  1   792      Prompt.test
[856 bytes used, 1834148 available, 1835004 total]
2048K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)