[tech] 7500 works... more

[Grahame Bowland (UCC)]

Hi all

I've upgraded the bootflash on the 7500 to rsp-boot-mz.120-13a.bin. This 
is good. This is sane. The bootloader can now talk to the ATA flash card 
disk0. This is also good. It also sees the interfaces ok. This is good.

The problem: the damn thing doesn't load its config on reload. It then drops 
into 12.0-13a boot and the initial config prompt. Typing 'no' and then 
'copy nvram:startup-config running-config' gets it running again. Go 
figure.

As a result it doesn't boot the nice shiny new IOS on disk0:. Anyone 
run into this? Anyone know the solution?

I can't see why it wouldn't use the config on nvram? It's bizarre.
I have the right boot bootldr line in there and everything. I even 
tried copying startup-config to bootflash: and putting boot config
bootflash:startup-config into it.

The problem is definitely not the flash card, dir disk0: works fine 
from the bootloader, I did a format on it and copied the image over 
afresh.

Cheers
Grahame