02-11-2015 03:33 PM - edited 03-07-2019 10:36 PM
Here's a first for me.
Cisco 2970. We were reloading the IOS and something went awry. The switch rebooted and now we come up to the following prompt.
It's not rommon, it's almost a test os that the cisco ios runs under beneath. Or perhaps a failsafe bootloader.
Any ideas as to how to get the IOS restored to the flash and boot? The bin file is there, but I can't archive or place a new TAR with the commands available.
"Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:15:fa:aa:45:00
Xmodem file system is available.
The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.
Initializing Flash...
flashfs[0]: 6 files, 2 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 15998976
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 7280640
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 8718336
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 8 seconds.
...done Initializing Flash.
Boot Sector Filesystem (bs) installed, fsid: 3
done.
Loading "flash:c2970-lanbasek9-mz.122-44.SE6.bin"...flash:c2970-lanbasek9-mz.122-44.SE6.bin: no such file or directory
Error loading "flash:c2970-lanbasek9-mz.122-44.SE6.bin"
Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process.
Loading "flash:/c2970-dmon-mz-121.14-EA1"...#############################
File "flash:/c2970-dmon-mz-121.14-EA1" uncompressed and installed, entry point: 0x73160
executing...
Stardust LOTR 2.3.1.test for PPC405
Compiled Jul 22 10:55 PDT 2003 by antonino@BLD-stardust_121_14_ea1_throttle.spring03-731
Copyright (c) 1999-2003 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
CPU: IBM PowerPC 405/Yeti: clock 125 (MHz)
DRAM: 128MB (0x8000000 Bytes)
Console: dev:ns165500: baudrate 9600
Flash: dev:flash0 at 0xff000000: Intel 28F128J3A: 16MB
Extracting inode list from dev:flash0d ............................................................................................................................. done.
Calling driver setup for YetiMic
Calling driver setup for Elmer
Calling driver setup for I2C
Calling driver setup for CiscoCamII
configured devices/modules:
class inst# device id state
-------------------------------------------------------------------
PlatformId [00] TRS+4SFP 0x9 (Active)
SystemSpace [00] SDRAM 0x0 (Active)
MIC [00] YetiMic 0x0 (Active)
SysReg [00] Elmer 0x0 (Active)
SysI2C [00] I2C 0x0 (Active)
PortAsic [00] Sasquatch 0x0 (Active)
PortAsic [01] Sasquatch 0x0 (Active)
PortAsic [02] Sasquatch 0x0 (Active)
PortAsic [03] Sasquatch 0x0 (Active)
PortAsic [04] Sasquatch 0x0 (Active)
PortAsic [05] Sasquatch 0x0 (Active)
PortAsic [06] Sasquatch 0x0 (Active)
CAM [00] CiscoCamII 0x0 (Active)
CAM [01] CiscoCamII 0x0 (Active)
CAM [02] CiscoCamII 0x0 (Active)
CAM [03] CiscoCamII 0x0 (Active)
CAM [04] CiscoCamII 0x0 (Active)
CAM [05] CiscoCamII 0x0 (Active)
CAM [06] CiscoCamII 0x0 (Active)
Port [01] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [02] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [03] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [04] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [05] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [06] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [07] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [08] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [09] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [10] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [11] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [12] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [13] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [14] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [15] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [16] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [17] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [18] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [19] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [20] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [21] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [22] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [23] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [24] Mrvl88E1042 0x2 (Active)
Port [25] SFP 0x0 (Active)
Port [26] SFP 0x0 (Active)
Port [27] SFP 0x0 (Active)
Port [28] SFP 0x0 (Active)
Welcome to Stardust!
TRS+4SFP>"
02-20-2015 06:09 PM
File "flash:/c2970-dmon-mz-121.14-EA1" uncompressed and installed, entry point: 0x73160 executing...
Uh-oh. Looks like you've gotten hold of a development appliance loaded with an Cisco-only internal OS.
An old "IOS" but if you want to get into a correct IOS you'll need to load the correct IOS via XModem.
02-20-2015 06:20 PM
It could definitely be. I did make another effort similar to password recovery for the 2970. It took me into rommon mode which allowed me to manually boot the right flash file.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-2950-series-switches/12040-pswdrec-2900xl.html
However, after rebooting the switch after a successful boot on the right flash file it boots to the same stardust mode. For now I have a second 2970 to get me by. Next weekend I'll be tearing the flash down to reload everything and see if I can get it squared away.
I've attached a pic of the rack. This is my home rack. A few more filler panels and cable ducts for the verticle wiring and I should be good to go. I use this for POCs of AWS/AZURE cloud connectivity for businesses.
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