Solved: Re: 2960 Boot Process Failed Need to Set Factory Default

ruckessbx1 · ‎03-25-2013

Loading "flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE5/c2960s-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE.bin"...flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE5/c2960s-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE5bin: no such file or directory

Error loading "flash:/c2960s-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE5/c2960s-universalk9-mz.12255.SE5.bin"

Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process.

Boot process failed...

The system is unable to boot automatically. The BOOT

environment variable needs to be set to a bootable

image.

I did a write erase and reload and this happened.

Thanks

Marvin Rhoads · ‎03-25-2013

Is there a bootable image on the device's flash memory? if so you can tell it to boot that while at the rommon prompt on console. If not, you will have to first put a bootable image onto flash or other accessible location.

With a 2960S, the easiest recovery is to use a USB memory stick plugged into the switch's USB Type A port directly as the boot device. See this thread for some tips on that. The documentation says up to 1 GB memory stick is OK but folks have reported success with larger - you must format it FAT 16 though.

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