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Cisco 7201 Boot

1. The document describes the boot sequence for a Cisco 7201 router, beginning with the ROMmon loading and then checking various storage devices and boot variables to determine which IOS image to load. 2. It will first check flash storage for a boot image, then compact flash disk if not found on flash, before loading the IOS referenced in the first boot system variable if those checks fail. 3. If the first IOS attempt does not load successfully, it will then try loading the IOS referenced in the second boot system variable.

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Cisco 7201 Boot

1. The document describes the boot sequence for a Cisco 7201 router, beginning with the ROMmon loading and then checking various storage devices and boot variables to determine which IOS image to load. 2. It will first check flash storage for a boot image, then compact flash disk if not found on flash, before loading the IOS referenced in the first boot system variable if those checks fail. 3. If the first IOS attempt does not load successfully, it will then try loading the IOS referenced in the second boot system variable.

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Follow the tree down where 1 is first choice, 2 is second.

The IOS is based on the specified boot variables.

ROMmon

1 2
Flash CompactFlash
(Bootflash) Disk
c7200p-kboot-mz.124-15.T8.bin c7200p-kboot-mz.124-4.XD8.bin

1 2 1 2

c7200p-advipservicesk9-mz.124-15.T8.bin c7200p-advipservicesk9-mz.124-4.XD8.bin

Boot Variables

conf t
boot system flash flash:c7200p-advipservicesk9-mz.124-15.T8.bin
boot system flash disk0:c7200p-advipservicesk9-mz.124-4.XD8.bin
end

"show bootvar"
BOOT variable = flash:c7200p-advipservicesk9-mz.124-15.T8.bin,12;disk0:c7200p-advipservicesk9-mz.124-4.XD8.bin,1;
CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist
BOOTLDR variable =
WARM_REBOOT variable = FALSE
Configuration register is 0x2102
Cisco 7201 Boot Sequence

ROMmon Loads

Yes Boot Image No


on Flash?

Yes Boot Image No


Load Boot Image
on Disk?

Boot first IOS on


Flash

Config
Yes No
Variable
Set? IOS Loads No
Successfully?

Yes
Try to load IOS Boot first IOS on
image referenced CompactFlash Router is in
by variable 1. Disk ROMmon

IOS Loads No
Successfully?

Yes
Try to load IOS
IOS Loads Yes
image referenced
Successfully?
by variable 2.

No

Router is on Router is
Boot Image Running

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