Installing UCS Express When the Boot Loader Fails

I posted the other week about how to install the UCS Express. My second UCS Express installation actually failed. I had initiated the hypervisor installation, but it must have failed at some point in the process and the SRE was in a constant reboot cycle. I contacted Cisco TAC and they sent me the following instructions:

! copy the sre-v-installer.smv.x.x.x file to the router's flash
router#copy ftp://varrow:######@192.168.0.191/sre-v-installer.smv.1.0.2 flash:
Destination filename [sre-v-installer.smv.1.0.2]?
Accessing ftp://*****:*****@192.168.0.191/sre-v-installer.smv.1.0.2...
! setup the tftp-server on the router to reference the sre-v-installer.smv.x.x.x file
router(config)#tftp-server flash:sre-v-installer.smv.1.0.2
! login to the SRE
router#service-module sm3/0 session
Initializing memory #1. Please wait...
Initializing memory #2. Please wait...
This may take a minute....

Serial ATA Port 0 : Hitachi HTE545050B9A300
Serial ATA Port 1 : Hitachi HTE545050B9A300
DDR Memory 4096 MB detected
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L9400 @ 1.86GHz
BIOS SM 3.52.6, BIOS Build date: 08/03/2010
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L9400 @ 1.86GHz
BIOS SM 3.52.6, BIOS Build date: 08/03/2010
System now booting...

Please wait...

Please press P to select Primary Boot Loader ...
or S to select Secondary Boot Loader ...
or wait to boot from default configuration ...
.......................................................................................................

SRE module get located and run....
Now booting from secondary boot loader....
Authenticating boot loader....
Secondary Boot Loader authenticated - booting....
Please enter '***' to change boot configuration:
***
ServicesEngine Bootloader Version : 2.1.30
! the config command is optional, only if you need to change the IP address or TFTP server; you can keep the defaults
ServicesEngine boot-loader> config
IP Address [1.1.1.6] >
Subnet mask [255.255.255.252] >
TFTP server [1.1.1.5] >
Gateway [1.1.1.5] >
Default Helper-file [sre-v-installer.smv.1.0.2] >
Ethernet interface[external|internal] [internal] >
Default Boot [none|disk|diag|chainloader] [disk] >
Default bootloader [primary|secondary] [secondary] >
ServicesEngine boot-loader> boot helper
Loading tftp://1.1.1.5/sre-v-installer.smv.1.0.2 ... done.

(output omitted)

Welcome to Cisco Systems Service Engine Helper Software
Please select from the following
1 Install software
2 Reload module
3 Disk cleanup
4 Install License(s)
5 Check Installation
(Type '?' at any time for help)
Choice: 1
Package name: sre-v-k9.smv.1.0.2.pkg
RAID level: -1
Server url: ftp://192.168.0.191/
Username: varrow
Password: #######
Argument:

Downloading ftp sre-v-k9.smv.1.0.2.pkg

(output omitted)

WARNING:: Software installation will clear disk contents
Continue [n]? y

(output omitted as SRE downloads files from FTP server, this part took about 15-20 minutes to install depending on bandwidth between SRE and FTP server)

Rebooting...
Restarting system...
System now booting...

At this point, the hypervisor is installed and the SRE is rebooting. Just let the hypervisor boot (it may take 5+ minutes). Don’t hit any keys no matter how tempted you are! Eventually you will see:

SYSTEM ONLINE
se-1-1-1-6#

From this point, you can resume the setup to set the default gateway and activate the license.

– Andrew

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February 28, 2011 / 4:05 pm
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