RE: PIX 520 not booting from floppy, failed upgrade

Kurt,

Can you got to ROMMON mode?

If you can you can reflash from there, sounds like you installed a corrupt
image.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Seifried [mailto:bt@seifried.org] 
Sent: 10 May 2006 03:00
To: 3 shool; firewalls@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: PIX 520 not booting from floppy, failed upgrade

> We had two Cisco PIX 520 (REV D0) running in failover mode. We decided 
> to upgrade one of them to the latest software, I think 6.3 or 7 
> version. The upgrade failed and one of the firewall is down since more 
> than 5 days now. Booting from floppy also fails. Till now I have tried 
> both version 5 and 6 to try and get it up and the upgrade fails saying 
> "Checksum error". I tried a different floppy also but the same error.
>
> Yesterday I also tried pressing the "reset" button on the front panel 
> hoping that to reset PIX to factory defaults but that too did not help.
>
> Please do send in your thoughts at the earliest.
>
> Thank you & await your reply.

Call your cisco support representative? Replace them with a pair of OpenBSD
firewalls running in failover configuration? Not a lot to go on here other
than "it's broken". Pray the remaining one doesn't break?

-Kurt

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