2900 password recovery

[knowlerp]

I have a 2900 XL 24 port switch running 12.0(5.1)XP

I cant remember the enale password so tried the recovery process as per -

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps607/prod_password_recoveries_list.html

However when I type "Dir Flash" I get a message "unable to stat flash Permission denied"

Can anyone help ?

Thanks.

[gpulos]

dont use the dir flash.

just run the following:

1) flash_init

2) load_helper

3) rename flash:config.text flash:config.old

4) boot

this should boot you up to a blank configuration prompting you to go into setup mode. say no,

5) get into enable mode

6) rename flash:config.old flash:config.text

7) copy start to run, then change the password and save;

reboot if needed just to assure all comes up as you expect from the start.

[knowlerp]

Thanks for your quick reply

However when I type "rename flash" etc it says

"Rename: file exists"

This still now boots up to a password prompt

However if I do "Dir Flash" I now get the following

switch: dir flash:

Directory of flash:/

2 -rwx 108 info

3 -rwx 1557594 c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120.5.1-XP.bin

4 drwx 14080 html

226 -rwx 108 info.ver

227 -rwx 660 vlan.dat

228 -rwx 4317 config.old

229 -rwx 25 snmpengineid

230 -rwx 1347 config.text

1305600 bytes available (2307072 bytes used)

switch:

thanks again for your help

[gpulos]

oh...you already have a config.old so you must delete this first or just rename config.text to config.ORG or something like that.

once you do this, you can do the boot sequence etc. i've shown above.