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admin password recovery not working

robertkwild
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trying to recover an admin password for a 31108TCV but its not working

so i press ctrl+c and then it says press ctrl+l to go into recovery mode so i do then i do the commands below

 

 

cmdline recoverymode=1
dir
boot n3000-uk9-kickstart.6.0.2.U6.8.bin
conf t
admin-password Password01
load-nxos
load bootflash:nxos.7.0.3.I7.9.bin
load bootflash:n3000-uk9.6.0.2.U6.8.bin

 

 

but the "load-nxos" command doesnt work, ive then tried the nxos line that didnt work then i repeated the whole process again and tried the n3000 line and that also didnt work ie when they all loaded i tried my new admin login and it didnt work

thanks,

rob

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RAdamWilliams
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I'm not super familiar with NX-OS in particular but from what I can see it looks like by the time you've gotten into conf t mode you've booted the device all the way. Can you link the instructions you're following so I can take a look?

robertkwild
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ok figured it out

made the boot/load line use the same bin ie

cmdline recoverymode=1
dir
boot nxos.7.0.3.I7.9.bin
conf t
admin-password Password01
load nxos.7.0.3.I7.9.bin

it didnt like the password as it was in dictonary so i chnaged it but this worked

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