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cold-rebooted

Posted in Cisco by vcappuccio on May 7th, 2008

This is a new feature in 12.3 that enables the router to perform a reboot using the IOS image currently running in DRAM. Having this capability greatly reduces boot time (no decompression or copying from slow flash) and reduces down-time when the router is returned to ROM by a bug. It also enables us to reboot the router even if we don’t have a valid IOS image in flash.

However, for warm-reboot to be active the router has to be cold-rebooted at least once after it’s configured.

With this command “warm-boot”, comes two options. The first is “count” which configures the maximum number of warm-reboots after which the router will perform a cold reboot. The second keyword is “uptime” which configures the time after which warm-reboot will be safe in case of a crash.

R1(config)#warm-reboot ?

count Set max number of continuous warm reboots

uptime Set the uptime after which warm reboot is safe in case of a crash

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To confirm if warm-boot is active, use the command “show warm-reboot”. You can also test it by issuing a “reload warm”. See below:

R1#show warm-reboot

Warm Reboot is enabled

Maximum warm reboot count is 5

Uptime after which warm reboot is safe in case of a crash is 5 (min)

Warm reboot can take place only after the next power cycle or reload.

R1#

So we reload the routers, after that,

R1#show warm-reboot

Warm Reboot is enabled

Maximum warm reboot count is 5

Uptime after which warm reboot is safe in case of a crash is 5 (min)

Statistics:

0 warm reboots due to crashes and 0 warm reboots due to requests have taken

place since the last cold reboot

2422 KB taken up by warm reboot storage

R1#

R1#reload warm

Proceed with reload? [confirm]

*Jun 24 18:09:35.135: %SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested by console. Reload Reason: Reload Command.

Smart Init is disabled. IOMEM set to: 10

Using iomem percentage: 10

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