I've got a 2600 running IOS v. 12.0(3). Friday afternoon it failed on me. When I connect via hyperterminal, the IOS is stuck in a startup loop. It begins the startup and gets into "Decompressing Image" and then starts over: (See Below)
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cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134-1706
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2600 Software (C2600-I-M), Version 12.0(3)T3, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 15-Apr-99 15:41 by kpma
Image text-base: 0x80008088, data-base: 0x80693A88
*** System received a SegV exception ***
signal= 0xb, code= 0x100, context= 0x80997c98
PC = 0x8027a710, Vector = 0x100, SP = 0x809d24c8
System Bootstrap, Version 11.3(2)XA4, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
TAC:Home:SW:IOS:Specials for info
C2600 platform with 32768 Kbytes of main memory
program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x371d9c
Self decompressing the image : #################################################
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################### [OK]
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If I power down and bring it back up, it just starts from where it left off. I can't break out of the loop.
Any ideas?
