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peter.hicks at poggs

Nov 4, 2009, 11:08 PM

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Cat6500 "Waiting for supervisor to come online in other slot" when booting

All,

I have a pair of 6504Es with Sup32s here, running 12.2(33)SXH6. When
they boot, the bootloader loads and I am presented with:

==cut===

System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(18r)SX9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 2008 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Cat6k-Sup32 platform with 524288 Kbytes of main memory

Autoboot executing command: "boot "

Initializing ATA monitor library...
string is bootdisk:s3223-boot-mz.122-33.SXH6.bin

Initializing ATA monitor library...

Self extracting the image... [OK]
Self decompressing the image :
################################################################################################################################################
[OK]

...

Cisco IOS Software, s3223_sp Software (s3223_sp-BOOT-M), Version
12.2(33)SXH6, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2009 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 15-Oct-09 11:59 by prod_rel_team
Image text-base: 0x40231348, data-base: 0x41B62000

MAC based EOBC installed

Waiting (slot 1) for supervisor to come online in other slot. iteration
= 0
Next Retry will be done after 6 seconds

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I only have a single Sup32 in the chassis, and this message continues
forever. Breaking out and booting the image manually appears to work.

What causes this, and how can I get around it? I am sure I'm not doing
something correctly.

Regards,


Peter


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peter.hicks at poggs

Nov 7, 2009, 8:58 AM

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Re: Cat6500 "Waiting for supervisor to come online in other slot" when booting [In reply to]

All,

Peter Hicks wrote:

> I have a pair of 6504Es with Sup32s here, running 12.2(33)SXH6. When
> they boot, the bootloader loads and I am presented with:
>
> ==cut===
...
> Cisco IOS Software, s3223_sp Software (s3223_sp-BOOT-M), Version
> 12.2(33)SXH6, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
> Copyright (c) 1986-2009 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Thu 15-Oct-09 11:59 by prod_rel_team
> Image text-base: 0x40231348, data-base: 0x41B62000
>
> MAC based EOBC installed
>
> Waiting (slot 1) for supervisor to come online in other slot. iteration
> = 0
> Next Retry will be done after 6 seconds
>
> ==cut===

For the archives - because somebody else is likely to have this problem,
the problem was that I had a modular software image and the boot
variables weren't set properly.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/prod_white_paper0900aecd80313e09.html
explains how to install modular images.

Regards,


Peter
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