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How does the SWIM bootldr recommendation process work?

April 26, 2017bootldr process recommendation swim

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How does the SWIM bootldr recommendation process work?

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A. Different hardware platforms in Cisco IOS Software have different bootldr images. For example, the bootldr image for the Cisco 4500 device is c4500-boot-mz; the bootldr image for the Cisco 7200 is c7200-boot-mz. From the library, SWIM determines which bootldr images belong to the same family as the target device. SWIM then recommends the most current of all available images. Unlike system software images, bootldr images do not have RAM requirements. Therefore, SWIM does not perform prerequisite matches between the device and the image.