Aug 16, 2012 · Hello Cisco geniuses. We dusted off an un-used Cisco Catalyst 3750-48PS switch that we found in storage. Powered it on, assigned and ip and whatnot. Noticed that the IOS version was the 1st one out of 18 revisions available. We decided to do an upgrade via the webconsole. We were at the original 12.2.35-SE5(ED) and jumped to 12.2.55-SE6(ED). Boot process failed... The system is unable to boot automatically. The BOOT envirmnment variable need to be set to a bootable image. switch: Show boot command confirmed that the switch had had a proper boot configuration pointing to an existing firmware file. Suspecting the new firmware file was damaged, I decided to copy it again.