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Some time ago I had a case with damaged file system on Huawei S5300 switch. It had been
caused by power failure on one site. The switch was not able to decompress VRP software
and rebooted itself all the time.
To reactivate this switch we decided to upload a new software file to the flash of the switch. It
was not enough space to do it, so format flash was necessary.
FILESYSTEM SUBMENU
1. Erase Flash
2. Format flash
3. Delete file from Flash
4. Rename file from Flash
5. Display Flash files
6. Update EPLD file
7. Update FansCard File
8. Return to main menu
FILESYSTEM SUBMENU
1. Erase Flash
2. Format flash
3. Delete file from Flash
4. Rename file from Flash
5. Display Flash files
6. Update EPLD file
7. Update FansCard File
8. Return to main menu
FILESYSTEM SUBMENU
1. Erase Flash
2. Format flash
3. Delete file from Flash
4. Rename file from Flash
5. Display Flash files
6. Update EPLD file
7. Update FansCard File
8. Return to main menu
Glad we started loading the new VRP file to the flash by FTP. How to upload a new file to
S5300 you can see on the article: console password recovery Huawei S5300.
And we encountered the second problem. We were not able to upload this file due to lack of
free space of the flash memory, even though it has been formatted. To solve this problem we
decided to update bootrom. Below a whole procedure how to do this:
BOOTROM MENU
ETHERNET SUBMENU
1. Download file to SDRAM through ethernet interface and reboot the system
2. Download file to Flash through ethernet interface
3. Modify ethernet interface boot parameter
4. Return to main menu
BOOTLINE SUBMENU
BOOTLINE SUBMENU
ETHERNET SUBMENU
1. Download file to SDRAM through ethernet interface and reboot the system
2. Download file to Flash through ethernet interface
3. Modify ethernet interface boot parameter
4. Return to main menu
ETHERNET SUBMENU
1. Download file to SDRAM through ethernet interface and reboot the system
2. Download file to Flash through ethernet interface
3. Modify ethernet interface boot parameter
4. Return to main menu
Enter your choice(1-4): 4
BOOTROM MENU
After update you can see that the command for updating bootrom has also been changed. It
looks more intuitively now:
BOOTROM MENU
ETHERNET SUBMENU
After bootrom update there was not any problem to upload the new VRP software file to the
switches flash memory.