I have an old cisco catalyst LE switch 4506-E, I have been using it for long period. Now when i power on, it displays the below error and goes to rommon mode.
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* Rom Monitor NVRAM configuration is being initialized to *
* default values. This may be because it was never initialized.*
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Writing to Primary Region failed
Writing to Backup Region failed
Rommon (G) Signature verification PASSED
flash0:/codesign/rm1.dat open failure
Rommon (P) Signature verification PASSED
flash0:/codesign/rm2.dat open failure
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* Rom Monitor NVRAM configuration is being initialized to *
* default values. This may be because it was never initialized.*
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Writing to Primary Region failed
Writing to Backup Region failed
FPGA (P) Signature verification PASSED
flash0:/codesign/fpga.dat open failure
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* Welcome to Rom Monitor for WS-C4500X-16 System. *
* Copyright (c) 2008-2012 by Cisco Systems, Inc. *
* All rights reserved. *
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Rom Monitor (P) Version 15.0(1r)SG6
CPU Rev: 2.2, Board Rev: 4, Board Type: 108
CPLD Mobat Rev: 2.0x4377.0xb277
Chassis: WS-C4500X-16
MAC Address : f0-f7-55-c5-31-7f
Ip Address : Not set.
Netmask : Not set.
Gateway : Not set.
TftpServer : Not set.
Non-Redundant system or peer not running IOS
System Uplinks & Linecards have been reset!!
***** The system will autoboot in 5 seconds *****
Type control-C to prevent autobooting.
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******** The system will autoboot now ********
config-register = 0x102
Writing to Primary Region failed
Writing to Backup Region failed
Autobooting using BOOT variable specified file.....
Could not find a valid file in BOOT environment variable.
BOOT variable can be set from IOS. To find currently set
Rom Monitor variables, please type 'set' command.
For help on choosing a boot method, type 'confreg' command.
Writing to Primary Region failed
Writing to Backup Region failed
Writing to Primary Region failed
Writing to Backup Region failed
Writing to Primary Region failed
Writing to Backup Region failed
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So i try to see the image in the bootflash, if i execute the dir bootflash:, It displays as below and doesn't showed the content
rommon 1 >dir bootflash:
ExtX super block invalid signature
So i thought of booting the device with usb but no pendrive gets detected .it also fails as u can see below
rommon 2 >dir usb0:
No USB storage device detected!
Error[3]: Failed to open directory!
Can anyone suggest me what i can do further?
