A 6509 crashed and it went to ROMMON like this
System Bootstrap, Version 8.5(2) Copyright (c) 1994-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc. Cat6k-Sup720/SP processor with 524288 Kbytes of main memory rommon 1 > boot Initializing ATA monitor library... string is bootdisk:s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin Loading image, please wait ...
Well, IOS and the boot image are there. Yet still no joy.
6509#sh bootv
BOOT variable = sup-bootdisk:,1;
CONFIG_FILE variable =
BOOTLDR variable =
Configuration register is 0x2102
Standby is not present.
6509#dir
Directory of sup-bootdisk:/
1 -rw- 74573284 Aug 6 2008 23:02:28 +10:00 s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin
2 -rw- 33554432 Aug 7 2008 08:27:28 +10:00 sea_log.dat
3 -rw- 137219 Oct 9 2008 15:04:02 +11:00 crashinfo_20081009-040403
512106496 bytes total (403832832 bytes free)
6509#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
6509(config)#boot system flash sup-bootflash:s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin
6509(config)#do wr
Building configuration...
[OK]
6509(config)#exit
6509#sh run | i boot
boot-start-marker
boot system flash sup-bootflash:s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin
boot-end-marker
6509(config)#do wr
Building configuration...
[OK]
6509(config)#exit
6509#reload
Proceed with reload? [confirm]
Oct 15 16:28:20.057 AEDT: %SYS-SP-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure console debugging output.
Oct 15 16:28:20.057 AEDT: %OIR-SP-6-CONSOLE: Changing console ownership to switch processor
Oct 15 16:28:23.337 AEDT: %SYS-SP-3-LOGGER_FLUSHING: System pausing to ensure console debugging output.
***
*** --- SHUTDOWN NOW ---
***
Oct 15 16:28:23.337 AEDT: %SYS-SP-5-RELOAD: Reload requested
Oct 15 16:28:23.337 AEDT: %OIR-SP-6-CONSOLE: Changing console ownership to switch processor
System Bootstrap, Version 8.5(2)
Copyright (c) 1994-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Cat6k-Sup720/SP processor with 524288 Kbytes of main memory
rommon 1 >
Apparently, this is what I needed to do.
rommon 1 > dir bootflash: Initializing ATA monitor library... Directory of bootflash: 2 74573284 -rw- s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin 936 33554432 -rw- sea_log.dat 13202 137219 -rw- crashinfo_20081009-040403 rommon 2 > set PS1=rommon ! > LOG_PREFIX_VERSION=1 SLOTCACHE=cards; SWITCH_NUMBER=0 BOOT=bootflash:,1;bootflash:s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin,1; RET_2_RTS=16:39:18 AEDT Wed Oct 15 2008 NT_K=0:0:0:0 CV=bootdisk:s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin BSI=0 RET_2_RCALTS= PF_REDUN_CRASH_COUNT=0 RANDOM_NUM=655707222 ?=0 rommon 3 > BOOT=s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin rommon 4 > sync rommon 5 > set PS1=rommon ! > LOG_PREFIX_VERSION=1 SLOTCACHE=cards; SWITCH_NUMBER=0 RET_2_RTS=16:39:18 AEDT Wed Oct 15 2008 NT_K=0:0:0:0 CV=bootdisk:s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin BSI=0 RET_2_RCALTS= PF_REDUN_CRASH_COUNT=0 RANDOM_NUM=655707222 BOOT=s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXH2a.bin ?=0 rommon 6 > confreg 2102 rommon 7 > reset