Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5510 Cannot Save Flash To Disk0
Feb 1, 2012
I deleted the flash from an ASA5510. I was able to tftp a version back into the device, but cannot seem to correctly have the box boot from this flash. I get the following error:
!WARNING: BOOT variable added, but not a valid image disk0: /asa831-k8.bin
*** Output from config line 41,"boot system disk0:/asa83..."
I have tried every save syntax i can think of to save this flash, but have yet to have it boot with an image ( I keep booting into ROMMON and have to tftp the image back in)
How do you save the command output from the CLI to a file on flash?
With IOS, I would normally use a pipe command to redirect to tftp, but the ASA doesn't support this as far as I can tell. As a work around I was thinking I could save the output to flash and then tftp that file off the ASA.
In order to do a flash upgrade on a 5510, is there any way to get the files from the existing flash onto the new flash before you replace existing flash? Is there an online procedure?
My client has had to replace their ASA 5510. Upon importing the image to the brand new ASA they are unable to write to the flash.
They have run fcsk disk0: to no avail. show file system show 0 and 0 for Flash size and Free space on disk0.
Is there anything that can be done, short of formating flash and trying to reinstall the image? I have asked them to reload the ASA but they are reluctant to do so as they don't want the site to lose connectivity.
I need to upgrade the compact flash of my ASA 5510 from 256MB to 512MB. A friend's recommendation was to buy a card reader, copy all of the data from the existing card and paste it to the new compact flash. I have a hard time believing that it's that straight forward.
Any safer, more foolproof way of migrating between flash cards?
I was handed a firewall ASA 5520 but without external flash, I want to confirm that the ASA at least boot from rommon mode boot must have the external flash connected? I connected to power and I connect it by the console port it did not show any boot.Additionally I can confirm it is possible that you can connect a flash of a previous ASA model, say a 5510?
how to storage the DHCP IP table in a external flash of a router. This is because the router is switched off and switched on everyday but I want that it remembers which MAC is associated with which IP when it starts again and avoid IP duplicate problems. The command "lease" doesn't seem useful here.
Is there a way to load a spare compact flash with a running-config, ASA IOS, & ASDM software via card reader? I need to load another flash card with all of the settings necessary for normal operation. This "spare" card will replace the flash that is currently in use. The reason for the replacement is capacity and because of changes made to the running-config. The "in-use" card is 256MB, the "spare" one is 512MB. Also, the new card will have a few changes made to the running-config, so it will, in essence, be a reload.
I have a card reader for the compact flash cards. If there is a way to load up this new card using the card reader, without monkeying with the firewall, I would prefer that. Like I said in the previous paragraph, this new flash card will replace the other one, once it's ready.
Hardware: ASA 5510 CF: 256MB (wanting to upgrade to the new 512MB card) ASA IOS: 8.4
How do I save/copy all of the router configuration entries onto a memory/flash usb drive? I did not configure the router myself (out of town when purchased). I have already downloaded the manual for that router and I want to understand exactly what she (person who configured router) did and identify any mistakes she might have made. Once downloaded, I assume I can print out all configuration settings.
I have ASA 5505 and I save the configuration in the ASA 5505 using write memory or using copy run start but whe i unplug the power cord and plug it back in the ASA gets its factory default configuration.
Trying to copy the system image file from the sup-bootflash to a new 64MB ATA flash card. Yes the software can support the 64MB card.
The ATA flash card was formated successfully, however I cannot copy the system image to it so that it can boot after a power loss. The command I tried was: console(enabled) copy sup-bootflash: slot0:
The source filename was typed in as shown in the Show Verison command.The result was: Error opening slot0: no such device.I suspect that I am missing something obvious as I am new to Cisco Switches.
My bootvar is set to boot up images from disk0. The 6500 series switch has two redundant supervisors.Each supervisor has a PCMCIA card with the exact same IOS images in the 0 slot. The secondary supervisor is given the disk name slavedisk0 and the primary is simply disk0
I have the ASA5520, everyday I have a lot of connections through my ASA5520. But buffer in ASA5520 to save connections is limited. Now, I want my ASA can auto save the conn detail and Xlate to my Syslog server, how can i do that?
Customer is using SUP720 with SP rommon image version 8.1(3), he is trying to boot the new ios image from disk0, but he gets invalid magic error. he fomat the disk0 but still he gets error when he boots from disk0. He suspect that it can't be flash problem but can be software of hardware as he has two flash with same issue on 2 switches.
Customer wanted to recreate, I tried in the lab, i was able to load from disk0, but sup in lab had 8.5(4).
Customer wanted me try with 8.1(3) version. But i was unable to downgrade the SP Rommon image. SP rommon is running in Gold region and I loaded the 8.1(3) from both disk0 and sup-bootdisk, even preferrence was given to region1 but still sup came up with gold region itself.
* Will i be able to downgrade from 8.5(4) to 8.1(3), if so, what are the steps.
* is there any limitation or bug where 8.1(3) will be unable to read disk0.
I am trying to configure redundancy with SSO and I need to get the same IOS on both supervisors. My issue is that I get an error when I try to copy the IOS from either the sup-bootdisk or the disk0 to the slavesupbootdisk. The Error is Invalid argument.
I have tried also to tftp to the slavesupbootdisk and get the same result.
I recently had some trouble with my ASA 5505 in that the running config would not be saved after a reboot. Definitely looked like a hardware problem with the flash memory. I have since bought a new flash memory card and copied the contents of the old card to the new card. 1st problem I have is that I can see the image on the new card, but for some reason it wont boot into that image. I get /file not found
I then successfully load a new image to the device and it boots successfully. I then follow it with a
Cisco asa# config t Cisco(config)# boot system disk0:/asa831-k8.bin
(to ensure it boots from the flash in the future) and I get
WARNING: BOOT variable added, but unable to find disk0:/asa831-k8.bin
I have since tried ciscoasa# fsck disk0: Unsupported file system type!
%Error checking disk0: (No such file or directory)
When ever I try to do anything with Disk0: i get the same error. (No such file or directory). I have also tried putting the old flash card in the ASA and I now get the same response.
We have a customer that has a ASA 5525-x reporting only 4g flash memory rather than 8g has any 4g version of the 5525 or is the IOS reporting incorrectly the size, as it seems to be embedded on these units as a USB disk internal.
I am in the process of setting up the ASA5520 with the latest 8.4 firmware latest Anyconnect 3.0.
Unfortunately, the internal memory is sufficient enough for the ASA ASDM only. It says not enough memory when I tried to tftp the Anyconnect pkg.There is a external flash slot at the back of the ASA, I've inserted a 256mb CF card but when I do a show disk1: it shows
I just got a brand new ASA 5550, i configured the port g0/0 on asa with an ip address 192.168.10.1 then configure my computer with ip 192.168.10.2 and default gateway is 192.168.10.1. I'm able to ping the asa from my computer. I remote to ASA thru the console port and try to copy iOS from flash to my pc but it doesn't work.
Cisco asa# copy flash tftp://192.168.10.2/asa804-k8.bin Source file name []? asa804-k8.bin Address or name of remote host [192.168.10.2]? Destination file name [asa804-k8.bin]? Writing file tftp://192.168.10.2/asa804-k8.bin... !%Error writing tftp://192.168.10.2/asa804-k8.bin (Timed out attempting to connect) Cisco asa#
I am needing to upgrade the Flash card on our current ASA from 64mb to a 1GB card to make way from upgrading from 8.0 to 8.4. When i copy all the contents from the 64MB card through a card reader i am not getting the startup-config file copied over. I checked to make sure that all hidden files are shown, but i am not seeing it. I backed up the startup-config from the old 64mb card to a tftp server before switching the cards out. Is their something that i am missing?
I need to upgrade the ASA 5520 from OS 8.2(5)26 to 8.2(5)33. the ASA only has 64M of flash. I have a 256M flash card. What are the steps to upgrade the flash? I am not sure how it will boot up because the new flash will be blank?
I was trying to erase some bad test configs on my 5505 with a write erase, but all VLAN and Ethernet configs remained. I hastily decided to do an erase flash. No I'm stuck at a ROMMON prompt with no image found to boot I'm hoping I don't have to TFTP a factory image. How do I find the images on disk0 and copy them?
Currently my ASA5510 has a 64MB internal flash. Does the ASA require a higher capacity flash for an IOS upgrade from 7.2(x) to 8.2(x)? The Cisco Release Notes does not state any internal flash requirement, but just wanted to double check.
I have pix 535 and wanted to erase the flash files (faulty) which already utilised 13 mb .so i cant upload new ios so i want erasedisk.bin ,i also have CCO account.
I recently upgraded the flash and the RAM on one of my ASA 5505 lab machines. The flash was upgraded from 128 to 512MB and the RAM was also upgraded from 256 to 512MB. I am using asa845-k8.bin. The firewall boots and runs file until you issue the reload command. The system shuts down but never reloads.
I have an ASA 5520, currently running version 7.25-k8. I'm preparing for an upgrade to version 7.25(4), so I transferred the software code (obtained via Cisco download) to the firewall vis SCP. I then issued the "verify flash:asa725-k8.bin" and it fails. It comes back with the error that the CRC did not verify, Data Integrity has been compromised". My first thought was the image did not copy correctly, so I deleted it and transferred it again. I got the same error. Then I decided to run a verify against the actual current code that was running on the firewall, and it came back with the same error. I don't understand what the problem is. I don't tend to think it's an SSH key related problem, as the method I use to access the firewall is via SSH and I have no problems. Worth noting,this firewall is part of an active/standby pair, and I observe the same behavior on the failover unit, it fails to verify.
I need to upgrade the flash memory of the ASA 5520 from 256Mb to 512Mb. As far as I realized the built-in flash memory called system compact flash and there is also an empty slot which it is possible to install a user flash.
What is the difference between user and system compact flash? and for upgrade can I just insert the user compact flash or do I need to upgrade the system compact flash? Where can I find the part number for each type?
