How to Upgrade Cisco IOS Bootstrap

Lessons Discussion
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This topic is to discuss the following lesson:

https://networklessons.com/uncategorized/upgrade-cisco-ios-bootstrap/

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why upgrade a bootstrap in the first place or what scenarios in which we need to upgrade the boostrap? Thanks Rene

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Hi Don,

It’s not a common thing to do. It is possible that you need to do on an upgrade when you want to install a new IOS version. I also vaguely recall that the 1841 routers can boot from USB but only with a certain (newer) version of the bootstrap.

Rene