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Since the images are over 70 MB, I will need to boot from the PCMCIA flash cards (disk0 and disk1). The problem is, when trying to boot from those devices, I get "bad magic number" (wasn't able to capure the exact output, sorry). I tried "boot disk0:" and "boot bootflash:" with the same problems. Finally, did a "boot sup-bootflash:" and it loaded my old image. It appeared as if the bootstrap wasn't recognizing any filesystem other than sup-bootflash.
In know in Mixed mode, you must first boot a small boot image for the MSFC, then IOS, i.e.:
boot bootldr bootflash:
boot system flash disk0:
How should the boot from disk0 be handled in Native IOS?

Hello,
In native IOS you just need to specify the boot system.
boot system flash disk0:blahblahblah.SX4.bin
Patrick Laidlaw

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