Issue Description
The scenario is the following: you have in a customer network a NE80E in service, having traffic and running with two MPU?s. Then one MPU becames to the faulty state and it is needed to replace it. You make a switchover so that the slave MPU could get the device management and
can continue working. Later a MPU spare is needed and the board arrives to the site. Usually the spare does not have the same software than the customer is
running in the network so it is needed to upload it to the board. If you do not have laboratory and you have to upload from the running NE80E when you connect to
the console port of the new MPU the system showes you you are connected to the slave MPU and you can not manage the upload process.
Alarm Information
Error:slave board can not login!
Handling Process
You can follow this boot process:
The upgrade operation:
1. Copy the new version to the cfcard.
2. Insert the slave mpu into NE80E
3. Connect the Aux interface of the slave mpu
4. Press Ctrl+B to enter Main Menu
5. input password “8090”
6. select 8 to check cfcard files
7. select 5 to set boot file
8. input the correct boot file
9. confirm the operation
10. check whether the change take effort
11. reboot the mpu board from cfcard
12.Connect console interface to observe the startup process
Following is my upgrade operation record, please pay attention to the blue comment
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* Copyright 2001-2005 Huawei Tech. Co., Ltd. *
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Board Name ....................................... CR52MPUA
SDRAM Size ....................................... 1024MB
The SDRAM testing ................................ pass!
.......................
The slot ID testing .............................. pass!
Starting...
Uncompressing................Done!
Starting at 0x1600000...
CLOCK_REALTIME(yyyy/mm/dd - hh:mm:ss) is: 2006/02/10 - 02:23:26
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* *
* 8090 boot ROM, Ver 29.00 *
* *
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Copyright 2001-2005 Huawei Tech. Co., Ltd.
Creation date: Mar 8 2005, 16:30:11
CPU type : MPC7447
CPU L2 Cache : 512KB
CPU Core Frequency : 1GHz
BUS Frequency : 133MHz
Press Ctrl+B to enter Main Menu... 3 //4. Press Ctrl+B
Password: //5. input password “8090”
Main Menu(bootload ver: 29.00)
1. Boot with default mode
2. Boot from CFcard
3. Enter serial submenu
4. Enter ethernet submenu
5. Set boot file and path
6. Set configuration file for system
7. Modify boot ROM password
8. List file in CFcard
9. Reboot
Enter your choice(1-9):8 //6. select 8 to check cfcard
List contents of cfcard:
5346 Feb 8 15:00 cfcard:/license.txt
63397316 Feb 8 15:00 cfcard:/v100r002b02esp02.cc
11092 Feb 8 15:00 cfcard:/paf.txt
4341 Feb 8 15:11 cfcard:/rou10-hval01.cfg
Root Cause
You are connected to the slave board so you could not manage the device or upload the software.
Suggestions
Total size: 250096KB, free size: 188148KB
Main Menu(bootload ver: 29.00)
1. Boot with default mode
2. Boot from CFcard
3. Enter serial submenu
4. Enter ethernet submenu
5. Set boot file and path
6. Set configuration file for system
7. Modify boot ROM password
8. List file in CFcard
9. Reboot
Enter your choice(1-9):5 //7. select 5 to set boot file
Boot file cfcard:/ne80e-vrp5.10-0026.cc, modify the file name if needed. //boot file is not right
Please input correctly, e.g.: cfcard:/V200R001B019.cc cfcard:/v100r002b02esp02.cc //8. input the correct boot file
The file name you input is cfcard:/v100r002b02esp02.cc.
Are you sure? Yes or No(Y/N)y //9. confirm the operation
Setting boot file and path...Done!
Main Menu(bootload ver: 29.00)
1. Boot with default mode
2. Boot from CFcard
3. Enter serial submenu
4. Enter ethernet submenu
5. Set boot file and path
6. Set configuration file for system
7. Modify boot ROM password
8. List file in CFcard
9. Reboot
Enter your choice(1-9):5 //10. check whether the change take effort
Boot file cfcard:/v100r002b02esp02.cc, modify the file name if needed. //correct one
Please input correctly, e.g.: cfcard:/V200R001B019.cc
Main Menu(bootload ver: 29.00)
1. Boot with default mode
2. Boot from CFcard
3. Enter serial submenu
4. Enter ethernet submenu
5. Set boot file and path
6. Set configuration file for system
7. Modify boot ROM password
8. List file in CFcard
9. Reboot
Enter your choice(1-9):2 //11. reboot the mpu board from cfcard
Booting from CFcard
Be sure the baudrate be 9600bps!
Loading.........................................................................
................................................................................
.............................................Done!
Took time : 6s
Update main boot ROM...
Writing data to boot ROM...
Took time: 8s
Success!Done!
System will reboot...
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* Copyright 2001-2005 Huawei Tech. Co., Ltd. *
*************************************************************
Board Name ....................................... CR52MPUA
SDRAM Size ....................................... 1024MB
The SDRAM testing ................................ pass!
Now begin to initialize system
Cache library initializing........................ pass!
.......
The slot ID testing .............................. pass!
Starting...
Uncompressing........Done!
Starting at 0x1600000...
Following this process we can success with the upload but it could be better to upload the software from the console port of the slave board.
DEAR APPROVER:
in the manual there is nothing said about upgrading a slave mpu in a running NE. it is just said how to upgrade from botroom but what I suggest is quite different so please take into account.
