Hi all,
As you all know, there are plenty of articles on cisco routers boot up process and memory types. But i find little on the switches; i believe they are the same.
But there is one thing which puzzled me during the password recovery of the cisco switch.
Over there, when boot into switch rom, it is instructed for us to change the config.text into another name. Over here, i believe this is the equivalent of startup-config in nvram for cisco router and carry on to the booting process.
Then it is instructed to rename the config.text into its original name and copy back into the system as running-config, which we will then proceed to change the password as desired.
Then it is said to just "write memory" or copy run start to copy the running-config into memory which i believe is nvram.
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Now, config.text is in flash.
startup-config is in nvram.
When we want to reset a password, we prevented the system from loading the config.text, next, we load it back and change the password within as a running config, and we save them to the startup-config instead of the config.text.
q1) So what is the relationship between config.text and startup-config ? When a switch load, which config does it actually use ? config.text or startup-config ?
Regards,
Noob
