Hi i have a problem please help. I accidentally deleted the flash file from the switch instead of the vlan.dat and now i cant boot the switch and it shows this errorError loading "flash:/c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7.E/c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7.E.bin" Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot proc

[hehexd]

and also this error :   The system is unable to boot automatically. The BOOT
environment variable needs to be set to a bootable
image.Switching, Catalyst 2000, LAN Switching

[Martin L]

is there c2960cx-universalk9 file in tar format (zipped) on flash?  or any other IOS image on flash (bin or tar)?  if not, then you will have to copy one (c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7 or any c2960)

Regards, ML
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[hehexd]

where should i copy exactly?

[hehexd]

when i execute boot command it says this switch: boot
Loading "flash:/c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7.E/c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7.E.bin"...

[Martin L]

are you sure there is nothing in flash:/c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7.E/ folder? it is hard to delete folder if it is not empty. go to that folder (cd flash:/c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7.E/ command) and do dir to see files.

[Martin L]

copy image to flash:/ Or -if you have same image, copy it to flash:/c2960cx-universalk9-mz.152-7.E/ which is a folder. you can copy image in tar format, then um-compress it or leave it as tar format. I would leave it in tar format but if you do un-compress tar file, it should create folder and put .bin file in it.
dir flash:/ to see if you have any image files (tar or bin)

[hehexd]

had to copy with xmodem, now its fine

[Martin L]

ok, you figured it out; glad it works