Sunday, February 15, 2015

Cisco Router Boot Sequence


The configuration register value stored in nvram tells the router how to boot. By deafult the configuration register value is 0x2102.

When a router boots up, it performs a series of steps, called the boot sequence, to test the hardware and load the necessary software.

The boot sequence consists of the following steps:

1. The router performs a POST-hardware diagnostic test.

2. The bootstrap then looks for and loads the Cisco IOS software. The bootstrap is a program in ROM. The bootstrap program is responsible for finding where each IOS program is located and then loading the file. By default, the IOS software is loaded from flash memory in all Cisco routers.

3. The IOS software looks for a valid configuration file stored in NVRAM. This file is called startup-config and is present in NVRAM only if an administrator copies the running-config file into NVRAM.

4. If a startup-config file is in NVRAM, the router will copy this file and place it in RAM and then call the file running-config. The router will use this file to run the router. The router should then be operational. If a startup-config file is not present in NVRAM, the router will attempt to locate a TFTP server that may contain this file, and if that fails, it will start the setup mode configuration process.



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