Symptom

Following error messages are observed during the booting sequence of the switch: % failed to initialize nvram % attempting to recover from backup % failed to initialize backup nvram

Conditions

Error messages are seeing when: ++ First time switch is booted. ++ After erasing the content of NVRAM and reloading the switch: C9500# write erase Erasing the nvram filesystem will remove all configuration files! Continue? [confirm] [OK] Erase of nvram: complete C9500# reload

Workaround

++ Error messages are no longer seen after issuing a "wr mem" or "copy run start" as the contents of nvram will be initialized at that point.

Further Problem Description