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r23_78178
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Mar 20, 2012

How to Brick an F5

Hi ,

 

 

I have a question regarding formatting.

 

 

I remember reading a solution a while back that mentioned the possibility of bricking an F5 if a certain option was used during formatting.

 

 

I think it had to do with the image2disk command and trying to use the -no format option when upgrading to 10.X but I am not sure.

 

It was an F5 SOL but I can' find it anymore , and all I remember (hopefully correctly) is the mentioning of being able to "brick the device".

 

 

Does anyone have an idea what I am referring to ?

 

 

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  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Mar 20, 2012
    I don't remember anything about bricking a BIG-IP. Was this the SOL you were thinking of?

     

     

    sol12561: Change in Behavior: The image2disk utility --instslot and --format options are now mutually exclusive

     

    https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/500/sol12561.html

     

     

    Aaron
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    r23_78178
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    Mar 22, 2012
    Posted By hoolio on 03/20/2012 03:53 PM

     

    I don't remember anything about bricking a BIG-IP. Was this the SOL you were thinking of?

     

     

    sol12561: Change in Behavior: The image2disk utility --instslot and --format options are now mutually exclusive

     

    https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/500/sol12561.html

     

     

    Aaron

     

     

    Hi Aaron,

     

     

    Thanks.

     

    That may be it, but I think the installation not only failed in the error but it also rendered the box unusable and needed a clean install.