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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 formatt...
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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.