unable to boot an image

[Bernie001]

I’m getting the following error msg when trying to boot an ASA5510.

No images in /
Error 15: File not found

unable to boot an image

So I’m trying to use tftp in rommon mode but I can not ping anything from either ASA <--> laptop or the other direction. I’m not sure I have correct SET variables in rommon mode.

The attachment shows the exact error msg as well as the rommon config settings I created.


Cisco's website has various documents with examples on how rommon should be configured for tftp download but I'm not able to ping and not sure what I'm doing wrong.

help plz

 

[Bernie001]

I’m getting the following error msg when booting.
No images in /
Error 15: File not found

unable to boot an image


So I’m trying to use tftp in rommon mode but I can not ping anything from either ASA ? laptop or the other direction. I’m not sure I have correct SET variables in rommon mode.
Here is what I have done:

Laptop
1. ip address: 10.10.10.2
2. mask: 255.0.0.0
3. no default-gateway set
4. asa804-23-k8.bin file in C:\TFTP-Root
5. tftp service is running
6. software firewall turned off
7. str-through cable to asa eth0/0


ASA5510
1. rommon #0> PORT=Ethernet0/0
Ethernet0/0
Link is UP
MAC Address: 001b.d554.512a
2. rommon #1> ADDRESS=10.10.10.1
3. rommon #2> SERVER=10.10.10.2
4. rommon #3> GATEWAY=10.10.10.254
5. rommon #4> IMAGE=tfpt://10.10.10.2/asa804-23-k8.bin
6. rommon #5> tftp
ROMMON Variable Settings:
ADDRESS=10.10.10.1
SERVER=10.10.10.2
GATEWAY=10.10.10.254
PORT=Ethernet0/0
VLAN=untagged
IMAGE=tfpt://10.10.10.2/asa804-23-k8.bin
CONFIG=
LINKTIMEOUT=20
PKTTIMEOUT=4
RETRY=20

tftp tftp://10.10.10.2/asa804-23-k8.bin@10.10.10.2 via 10.10.10.254
TFTP failure: Packet verify failed after 20 retries

I have a link light on the laptop/asa5510, but I’m not able to
rommon #1> ping server

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt boot.
Use SPACE to begin boot immediately.
Boot in 10 seconds. 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds.
Launching BootLoader...
Default configuration file contains 1 entry.

Searching / for images to boot.

No images in /
Error 15: File not found

unable to boot an image


Default configuration file contains 1 entry.

Searching / for images to boot.

No images in /
Error 15: File not found

unable to boot an image


Failsafe booting engaged.
Default configuration file contains 1 entry.

Searching / for images to boot.

No images in /
Error 15: File not found

unable to boot an image

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Booting system, please wait...


CISCO SYSTEMS
Embedded BIOS Version 1.0(11)2 01/25/06 13:21:26.17

Low Memory: 631 KB
High Memory: 256 MB
PCI Device Table.
Bus Dev Func VendID DevID Class Irq
00 00 00 8086 2578 Host Bridge
00 01 00 8086 2579 PCI-to-PCI Bridge
00 03 00 8086 257B PCI-to-PCI Bridge
00 1C 00 8086 25AE PCI-to-PCI Bridge
00 1D 00 8086 25A9 Serial Bus 11
00 1D 01 8086 25AA Serial Bus 10
00 1D 04 8086 25AB System
00 1D 05 8086 25AC IRQ Controller
00 1D 07 8086 25AD Serial Bus 9
00 1E 00 8086 244E PCI-to-PCI Bridge
00 1F 00 8086 25A1 ISA Bridge
00 1F 02 8086 25A3 IDE Controller 11
00 1F 03 8086 25A4 Serial Bus 5
00 1F 05 8086 25A6 Audio 5
02 01 00 8086 1075 Ethernet 11
03 01 00 177D 0003 Encrypt/Decrypt 9
03 02 00 8086 1079 Ethernet 9
03 02 01 8086 1079 Ethernet 9
03 03 00 8086 1079 Ethernet 9
03 03 01 8086 1079 Ethernet 9
04 02 00 8086 1209 Ethernet 11
04 03 00 8086 1209 Ethernet 5

Evaluating BIOS Options ...
Launch BIOS Extension to setup ROMMON

Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (1.0(11)2) #0: Thu Jan 26 10:43:08 PST 2006

Platform ASA5510

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt boot.
Use SPACE to begin boot immediately.

 

[brianinms]

ftp tftp://10.10.10.2/asa804-23-k8.bin@10.10.10.2 via 10.10.10.254
TFTP failure: Packet verify failed after 20 retries


Right there it is saying it failed. Set the default gateway of the ASA to your laptops ip address and try again.

 

[nottallhere]

Try moving the image to the root and remove the tfpt://10.10.10.2/ from the IMAGE=

 

[nottallhere]

I also found ftp to be more reliable for copying image files.

 

[Bernie001]

I made the following changes:
GATEWAY=10.10.10.2
IMAGE=asa804-23-k8.bin

I successfully tftp the image and booted the asa. I did a write mem and reload and it boots back to rommon mode.

So I then, erased disk0: and tried again with same results
I then download a different image from cisco.com and get the same results.




Cisco Security Appliance admin loader (3.0) #0: Thu Aug 7 20:59:50 MDT 2008
Loading...
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt/disk0 failed
mount: mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt/disk0 failed

Processor memory 177995776, Reserved memory: 20971520 (DSOs: 0 + kernel: 2097152
0)
Guest RAM start: 0xd4000080
Guest RAM end: 0xdd400000
Guest RAM brk: 0xd4001000

IO memory 51224576 bytes
IO memory start: 0xd0bff000
IO memory end: 0xd3cd9000

Total SSMs found: 0

Total NICs found: 7
mcwa i82557 Ethernet at irq 11 MAC: 001b.d554.5129
mcwa i82557 Ethernet at irq 5 MAC: 0000.0001.0001
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 3 index 00 MAC: 001b.d554.512a
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 3 index 01 MAC: 001b.d554.512b
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 2 index 02 MAC: 001b.d554.512c
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 2 index 03 MAC: 001b.d554.512d
i82547GI rev00 Gigabit Ethernet @ irq11 dev 1 index 05 MAC: 0000.0001.0002

INFO: Unable to read firewall mode from flash
Writing default firewall mode (single) to flash
Running Activation Key: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000

This activation key is not valid, use default settings only

Encryption hardware device : Cisco ASA-55x0 on-board accelerator (revision 0x0)
Boot microcode : CN1000-MC-BOOT-2.00
SSL/IKE microcode: CNLite-MC-SSLm-PLUS-2.03
IPSec microcode : CNlite-MC-IPSECm-MAIN-2.05

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Insufficient flash space available for this request:
Size info: request:32 free:0 delta:32
open or write(ffsdev/2/write/32) failed
Could not initialize system files in flash.
Type help or '?' for a list of available commands.
ciscoasa> n enable
Password:
ciscoasa# sho
ciscoasa# show FLA fla
ciscoasa# show flash:
--#-- --length-- -----date/time------ path
1374 0 Mar 30 2009 10:27:14 crypto_archive
1368 0 Mar 30 2009 10:27:01 log

0 bytes total (0 bytes free)
ciscoasa#

 

[stubnski]

Did you specify what image to boot from?

config t
boot system disk0:


Stubnski

 

[Bernie001]

How to tftp an image file from rommon mode:

Laptop:
1. ip address: 10.10.10.2
2. mask: 255.0.0.0
3. no default-gateway set
4. asa804-23-k8.bin file in C:\TFTP-Root
5. tftp service is running
6. software firewall turned off
7. str-through cable to asa eth0/0


Firewall:
1. rommon #0> PORT=Ethernet0/0
Ethernet0/0
Link is UP
MAC Address: 001b.d554.512a
2. rommon #1> ADDRESS=10.10.10.1
3. rommon #2> SERVER=10.10.10.2
4. rommon #3> GATEWAY=10.10.10.2
5. rommon #4> IMAGE=asa804-23-k8.bin
6. rommon #5> tftp
successful boot
1. ciscoasa(config)# format flash
2. ciscoasa(config)# write mem
3. ciscoasa(config)# interface ethernet 0/0
4. ciscoasa(config-if)# ip address 10.10.10.1 255.0.0.0
5. ciscoasa(config-if)# no shut
6. ciscoasa(config-if)# name if outside
7. ciscoasa(config-if)# security-level 100
8. ciscoasa(config)# ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.2
9. ciscoasa# copy tftp: flash:
10. ciscoasa# write mem

 

[Bernie001]

I got it working by formatting flash again, configure the device interface, gateway, then tftpdnld again.

see the instructions I posted above.

Thank you