Description

This article describes the issue of the L2 cache 512KB: enabled *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment error message being generated during the boot process.

Symptoms

At times, during the device boot process, the following message is generated in the boot logs :

L2 cache 512KB: enabled
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

Solution

This message is due to the flash sector or ERPROM, which contains the environment variables, not being initialized.

This is not an issue or a bug, nor does it indicate an erroneous state. This message can be safely ignored.