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How to Boot to IOS from rommon-2, and Not Have to do That Again

nathan
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If, via the console, you see that your device is booting to the "rommon-2" prompt, and so not to IOS directly, you can use these instructions to fix that. This may happen after you have reset the device, for example. For instructions on how to reset, see Re: How to reset the IR829 to factory settings.

If you do not have a console connection working, see How to use the IR829 Mini-USB Console Cable with OSX El Capitan 10.11, How to use the IR829 Mini-USB Console Cable with Windows 10, How to use the IR829 Mini-USB Console Cable with Linux or How to use a Serial-USB Console Cable with the IR829 and OSX El Capitan 10.11, depending on your choice of development environments.

After powering on the device, you will see various boot messages eventually resulting in the rommon-2 prompt as below. The "dir" command will show you what is in the flash memory in the device. Importantly, you should expect to see the IOS image file, which is "ir800-universalk9-mz.SPA.155-3.M" in the example below (the bold emphasis is added by me).

rommon-2> dir

flash:

vlan.dat

ir800-universalk9-mz.SPA.155-3.M

managed

eem

You can then use the "boot" command to boot from the IOS image, as shown below. There will be many messages shown in the console after you boot, the bulk of which are elided below. After 1-2 minutes, the device should be booted to the stage where you are asked: "Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]:". Enter "no", and the device will continue to boot and eventually display a "IR800>" prompt (you may need to press return to see that prompt appear).

rommon-2> boot flash:/ir800-universalk9-mz.SPA.155-3.M                       

Booting image: flash:/ir800-universalk9-mz.SPA.155-3.M....  [Multiboot-elf, <0

x110000:0x96f41a4:0x48b644>, shtab=0x9c90500

Signature verification was successful, entry=0x110240]

[CU:0]

Jumps to: 0x110240

Smart Init is enabled

smart init is sizing iomem

                TYPE      MEMORY_REQ

    Onboard devices &

        buffer pools      0x02E44000

-----------------------------------------------

              TOTAL:      0x02E44000

Rounded IOMEM up to: 47MB.

Using 10 percent iomem. [47MB/448MB]

              Restricted Rights Legend

...

%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)

%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out)

        --- System Configuration Dialog ---

Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]: no

Press RETURN to get started!

...

*Feb 23 11:05:50.895: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface GigabitEthernet1, changed state to up

*Feb 23 11:06:16.235: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Vlan1, changed state to up

*Feb 23 11:06:25.153: %CELLULAR-2-MODEM_UP: Cellular0 modem is now UP.

Once the device has booted to this stage you should see the prompt as below. If you do not, press return once of twice.

IR800>

Because you skipped the initial configuration dialog earlier, the device has a default configuration at this stage. You can enter "enable" (en) mode, and then configuration mode (conf t | configure terminal), as shown below, without entering any passwords (this is NOT safe for operations!). Then you can configure the boot image, which is the same as you used when booting from rommon-2, write the configuration to memory (wr mem | write memory) and reload the device. This time it will boot directly to IOS.

IR800>en

IR800#conf t

Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.

IR800(config)#boot system flash:/ir800-universalk9-mz.SPA.155-3.M

IR800(config)#exit

IR800#wr mem

*Feb 23 15:18:48.056: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by consolemem

Building configuration...

  [OK]

IR800#reload

Do you want to reload the internal AP ? [yes/no]: yes

Do you want to save the configuration of the AP? [yes/no]: yes

Proceed with reload? [confirm]

Withe the last prompt above, to reload, press return to continue.

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susmukhe
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hello,

I am facing same issue,When I am trying to boot from rommon-2,It is showing IOS image signature verification was:FAILURE.

Can you help give me a solution.

Cisco IOS Software, ir800 Software (ir800-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 15.6(3)M, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technica<3> [631.420399] IOAPIC: IOAPIC 1 initialized, implementation version 32

<3> [631.420399] <E1000> e1000_device_init: initialized E1000 device

<3> [631.420399] <E1000> e1000_device_init: initialized E1000 device

<6> PCI: Initializing

<6> PCI: Resetting devices

<6> PCI: Resetting device QAT15 (00:0b.0)

<6> PCI: Resetting device SMBUS1 (00:13.0)

<6> PCI: Resetting device ETH0 (00:14.0)

<6> PCI: Resetting device ETH1 (00:14.1)

<6> PCI: Resetting device ETH2 (00:14.2)

<6> PCI: Resetting device ETH3 (00:14.3)

<6> PCI: Finished resetting devices

<6> PCI: Restoring devices

<6> PCI: Finished Initializing

IOS image signature verification was: FAILURE

Autoboot string flash:ir800-universalk9-mz.SPA.156-3.M,12;

Failed to boot, skip first flash:ir800-universalk9-mz.SPA.156-3.M,12;

rommon-2>              

Thanks

Sushmit

jonespm1
Level 1
Level 1

So we accidentally deleted our IOS from flash.  How can we install IOS back onto the router when we're being forced into rommon-2 upon restart?

Many thanks, Nathan! It helped me fix an ISR1100 router.

I did copy the new software via TFPT to the FLASH: and I ran the command
rommon-2> boot flash:/c1100-universalk9.16.x.x.bin And bingo!

After booting onto the new image
(config)#boot system flash:/c1100-universalk9.16.x.x.bin
(config)#do wr mem

it is back to normal operation! many thanks once again!

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