Re: PIX 520 not booting from floppy, failed upgrade

When you did the upgrade did you check the memory?  That upgrade
requires a memory enhancement to your PIX.  I made the mistake of not
adding the correct amount of memory to my PIX and it casued the PIX
not to come up.  I could not even roll back the OS from 7 to 6.3 even
with the help of the Cisco TAC engineers.  That was weird as I have
had issues similar where upgrades went bad but I could always roll
back to the old OS version.  Eventually I shipped the old pix to them
and got a new one next day.  Thank god for Smartnet!!

On 5/9/06, Kurt Seifried <bt@seifried.org> wrote:
> >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