Installation Guide for BRCM
AsterNOS Uninstallation and Upgrade
9 min
uninstall asternos uninstall asternos we support uninstalling software that are not currently in use in asternos, and we also support uninstalling all asternos systems via onie to erase the disk of the entire partition where asternos is located uninstall non current asternos uninstall non current asternos run show image command to view the current asternos system example sonic# show image current asternos v3 1 r0406p01 next asternos v3 1 r0406p01 available asternos v3 1 r0406p01 sonic os cx nb 2 5 run sonic installer remove \<version name> command to uninstall older version example sonic# system bash admin\@sonic $ sudo sonic installer remove sonic os cx nb 2 5 remove all asternos systems remove all asternos systems log in to the switch through the serial port and then run reboot command wait for a while until the system selection window appears please select onie within 10 seconds or it will default to enter asternos later you will enter onie grub menu and select onie uninstall os this will take a while to erase all asternos systems and format the partitions wait for some time until the removal is complete, the system will automatically reboot and enter onie install os upgrade asternos upgrade asternos note while upgrading in asternos, the original configuration will inherit the switch supports deployment of two versions of asternos software run sonic# image switch \<version name> command to bring back to the previous version and reboot the switch to take effect copy the new version of asternos software image to the switch via scp or other methods log in to the switch through ssh ssh admin\@10 250 0 232 execute the following command to install image update asternos v3 1 r0406p01 brcm bin view the information of asternos system images present in the switch currently show image the new version takes effect after you reboot the switch reboot re login to the switch and check the version information now the upgrade is complete show version
