From a question on groupstudy; the following output was posted of a Cisco 2600 that did not boot up even after the Flash was upgraded to 32MB??????

System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(3r)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
 Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
 C2600 platform with 65536 Kbytes of main memory

 program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x1c8a8e4

 Error : memory requirements exceed available memory
 Memory required     : 0x04746F90

 *** System received a Software forced crash ***
 signal= 0x17, code= 0x4, context= 0x80080630
 PC = 0x0, Vector = 0x0, SP = 0x0

 System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(3r)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
 Copyright (c) 2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
 C2600 platform with 65536 Kbytes of main memory

 program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x1c8a8e4

 Error : memory requirements exceed available memory
 Memory required     : 0x04746F90

 rommon 1 > dir flash:
 File size           Checksum   File name
 29928068 bytes (0x1c8aa84)  0x6ee9    c2600-adventerprisek9-mz.124-23.bin
 rommon 2 >

What could the problem be?

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