Router startup issues

[seansheil]

I recently received an 1811  router. It appears to have some corruption. On bootup I get the following:

System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(8r)YH13, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 2008 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C1800 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized
PASSWORD RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED
program load complete, entry point: 0x80012000, size: 0xc0c0

Initializing ATA monitor library.......
boot: cannot determine first file name on device "flash:"

System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(8r)YH13, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 2008 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C1800 platform with 262144 Kbytes of main memory with parity disabled

Readonly ROMMON initialized
PASSWORD RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED
program load complete, entry point: 0x80012000, size: 0xc0c0

Initializing ATA monitor library.......
boot: cannot determine first file name on device "flash:"

It continues to restart. I have tried to break into ROMMON, but have not had success. What are my options? How can I load ROMMON utility so that I can rebuild this system?

[ghostinthenet]

You're certainly in a bit of a bind. Recovery from this situation is possible, but usually requires a working IOS. I would take the CF card out of the system, connect it to a PC, reformat it with FAT32 and put a fresh IOS on it. Once this is done, you can place the CF card back in the unit and see if it will start. If it does, you can reset it to factory defaults by pressing control-break when IOS begins to decompress.