I have a two old redundant CSM SARs all with Boot ROM X-6.1.R7 which finds and loads boot.ldr (9.0.R7) from CF card. It seems to have no issue with loading boot.ldr and starts running it but then spits out some garbled output and reboots.
I've got 4 CSM all doing the same, tried several CF cards, 128MB, 1GB 2GB, FAT, FAT32, full format vs quick etc. I tweaked bof.cfg many times but I never get a chance to break into boot process. I double checked that my serial cable is actually sending characters out, but I never get any echo or indication from the SAR that it knows I'm there. Should I be seeing my characters echo'd back?
I had only one CSM card in the shelf for this testing, all other cards and stby CSM removed. It boots, loads boot.ldr, thinks, writes some unreadable(to me) stuff to console and reboots.
It looks like the garbled output is at another baud rate, but I've set every standard baud up to 115200 hoping to be able to read that garbled out but nothing worked. I tried 7n1, odd even etc, I timed waiting through 2 reboot cylces on each setting and never got that bit of text readable.
Here is console output I see, loops over and over just like this
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Alcatel-Lucent 7705 Boot ROM. Copyright 2000-2015 Alcatel-Lucent.
All rights reserved. All use is subject to applicable license agreements.
Build: X-6.1.R7 on Tue Mar 24 15:06:49 EDT 2015 by csabuild
Version: 0x2D
Starting CPU/Switch card
Performing Data Bus Test... Passed.
Performing Local RAM Test (1st 2MB)... Passed.
COLD boot on processor #1
CPLD revision is 0x0F
?Preparing for jump to RAM...
Starting bootrom RAM code...
Bootrom version is v45 (0x2d)
CPU BIST check passed.
Testing SDRAM from 0x0000000002200000 to 0x0000000042000000
Testing Compact Flash ... OK (KODAK TB)
CPLD revision is v15 (0x0f)
Board Serial Number is 'NS123456789'
Chassis Serial Number is 'LL123456789'
Searching for boot.ldr on local drives:
Searching cf3 for boot.ldr...
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Alcatel-Lucent 7705 Boot ROM. Copyright 2000-2015 Alcatel-Lucent.
All rights reserved. All use is subject to applicable license agreements.
Build: X-6.1.R7 on Tue Mar 24 15:06:49 EDT 2015 by csabuild
Version: 0x2D
Starting CPU/Switch card
Performing Data Bus Test... Passed.
Performing Local RAM Test (1st 2MB)... Passed.
COLD boot on processor #1
CPLD revision is 0x0F
?Preparing for jump to RAM...
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primary-image cf3:/both.tim
primary-config cf3:/config.cfg
console-speed 115200
no auto-discover
persist off
autonegotiate
duplex full
speed 100
wait 30
It never even gets far enough to look for a primary image or allow me to interrupt boot process. boot.ldr crashes every time and whatever it says I can't read at any baud rate.
Do I need boot.ldr from Release 6.x that matches the reported BootRom version? Or at least a closer version like 7.x?
