Changeing flash: from read only to read write

[Vikingplanet]

good day.

i have a Catalyst 3650 that i was going to delete the config file from. and for som reason it was set up previously with the wrong enable password. so i went to ROMMON to delete the config file from there, but then i noticed that flash: was in read only mode and i cant delete the file because of it. so my question is. is there a way to change it to read write, and if so, how? or is there another way i can delete the config file?

switch: delete flash:nvram_config
Are you sure you want to delete "flash:nvram_config" (y/n)?y
File "flash:nvram_config" not deleted -- read only file system

switch: dir

List of filesystems currently registered:

              xmodem[0]: (read-only)
                null[1]: (read-write)
                  bs[3]: (read-only)
               flash[18]: (read-only)
                tftp[19]: (read-write)

[Abheesh Kumar]

Hi,

If you are not able to copy from usbflash to flash then try with Xmodem recovery option.

HTH

Abheesh

[ankitsatya30]

sorry to say but have tried this as well. not able to copy thru xmodem as well. as flash and xmodem both showing read only.

[Felipe A. Amaya]

Have you tried the following:

rommon 2> dir usbflash0:

I your see your file then proceed with the following.

rommon 3> boot usbflash0: your file name.124-3.bin

[ankitsatya30]

didn't work. same issue

[dennishyde]

I had the same problem with trying to upgrade 3850s.  First the *.bin wouldn't copy across, it would time out or something.  Then the power went out over the weekend and 2 switches, failed in the copies, wouldn't come up.  The *.bin or all *.pkg files were gone out of flash:.  Couldn't copy the *.bin back via xmodem, SCP, TFTP, or from USB.  Every time I got an error that flash: was Read Only.  Even though listing the files in flash (dir flash:) would show RW.

Ended up doing the emergency-install command from *.bin on a USB drive (this puts all the pkg files in flash:).  Then had to copy the *.bin from USB to flash:.  Then finally when to conf t and updated boot system *.bin.  Rebooted and everything came back up with previous config running!

Thanks to those that offered different things to try.  Still not sure why this all happened but now I know how to fix it!

[CERKYR]

Hello,

For a 3850-12S, at the end, what are the final commands and the final method to obtain a real Factory Reset (unboxing) ?
Regards,