Does your ICX switch not boot up? Connect to the switch using serial connection, if your switch is giving you feedback as ICX7150-Boot - the switches' firmware is corrupt and needs restoring.

Before flashing firmware we can try and check if the switch will boot-up manually, just type in the command

boot_primary

If both primary and secondary partitions fails to boot then please follow the guide below. If you manage to make the switch boot normally, please refer to our other update guide where we explain on how to update firmware. Link found here

Habitech advise to use 08092d UFI or newer firmware to prevent firmware corruptions!

Step 1: Making the right connections

Connect a console cable(USB-C) from the console port to your laptop
Connect an Ethernet cable from the management port (the port located above USB A connector) to the TFTP server.
On the TFTP server(your laptop), assign an IP address to the connected Network Interface Card (NIC).

IP address 10.10.10.21 mask 255.255.255.0

NOTE

In practice, the TFTP server is also used as the terminal server to view the CLI output.

Reboot the device.
When in boot mode, enter the printenv command to display details of the images available on the device memory.

device> printenv

baudrate=9600

uboot=brocade/ICX7450/bootcode/spz10106b002

Version:10.1.06T215 (May 15 2015 - 11:28:23)

The path is to the boot image on the TFTP server.

Provide the IP address of the TFTP server that hosts a valid software image using the setenv serverip command.

device> setenv serverip 10.10.10.21

Set the IP address, gateway IP address, and netmask for the device management port, and save the configuration using the setenv ipaddr, setenv gatewayip, setenv netmask, and saveenv commands.

device> setenv ipaddr 10.10.10.22

device> setenv gatewayip 10.10.10.1

device> setenv netmask 255.255.255.0

device> saveenv

NOTE

The IP address and the gateway IP address set for the device management port should be for the same subnet as the TFTP server NIC.

Enter the printenv command to verify the IP addresses that you configured for the device and the TFTP server.

device> printenv

baudrate=9600

ipaddr=10.10.10.22

gatewayip=10.10.10.1

netmask=255.255.255.0

serverip=10.10.10.1

uboot=brocade/ICX7150/bootcode/spz10106b002

Version:10.1.06T215 (May 15 2015 - 11:28:23)

Provide the file name of the image that you want to copy from the TFTP server using the setenv image_name command.

device> setenv image_name SPS08090.bin

Update the primary flash using the update_primary command.

device> update_primary

ethPortNo = 0

Using egiga0 device

TFTP from server 10.10.10.21; our IP address is 10.10.10.22

Download Filename 'SPS08090.bin'.

Load address: 0x3000000

Download to address: 0x3000000

Loading: %#################################################################

#################################################################

########################################################

done

Bytes transferred = 10360844 (9e180c hex)

prot off f8100000 f907ffff

................................................................................

........

Un-Protected 248 sectors

erase f8100000 f907ffff

.................................................

.................................................................

....

Erased 248 sectors

copying image to flash, it will take sometime...

sflash write 3000000 100000 f80000

TFTP to Flash Done.

Update the secondary flash using the update_secondary command.

device> update_secondary

ethPortNo = 0

Using egiga0 device

TFTP from server 10.10.10.21; our IP address is 10.10.10.22

Download Filename 'SPS08040.bin'.

Load address: 0x3000000

Download to address: 0x3000000

Loading: %#################################################################

#################################################################

########################################################

done

Bytes transferred = 10360844 (9e180c hex)

prot off f8100000 f907ffff

................................................................................

........

Un-Protected 248 sectors

erase f8100000 f907ffff

.................................................

.................................................................

....

Erased 248 sectors

copying image to flash, it will take sometime...

sflash write 3000000 100000 f80000

TFTP to Flash Done.

Load the image from the primary or secondary flash using the boot_primary or boot_secondary commands.

device> boot_primary

Booting image from Primary

## Booting image at 00007fc0 ...

Created: 2015-05-02 20:38:52 UTC

Data Size: 10360268 Bytes = 9.9 MB

Load Address: 00008000

Entry Point: 00008000

Verifying Checksum ... OK

Starting kernel in BE mode ...

Uncompressing Image.............................................................

................................................................................

........................................... done, booting the kernel.

Config partition mounted.

Enter the show flash command and review the output to check whether the image copy process was successful.

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