06-29-2019 11:54 AM
Hi guys,
I bought 2 3560 switches to practice my ccnp switch exam.
However when received those switches and booted them, they were set up with user login details which i don't know of course.
So I tried breaking the boot up to get in to rommon mode so i can make it skip the nvram.
However it is not even letting me do that and proceeds on with with booting.
However i do get an error when loading the IOS, "Error loading "flash:c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE/c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE.bin"
please see below further:
Boot Sector Filesystem (bs) installed, fsid: 2
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:23:5d:8a:3c:80
Xmodem file system is available.
The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.
Initializing Flash...
flashfs[0]: 5 files, 1 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 15998976
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 11774464
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 4224512
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 9 seconds.
...done Initializing Flash.
done.
Loading "flash:c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE/c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE.bin"...flash:c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE/c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE.bin: no such file or directory
Error loading "flash:c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE/c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SE.bin"
Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process.
Loading "flash:/c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE6.bin"...@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Can you please assist?
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06-29-2019 12:10 PM - edited 06-29-2019 12:12 PM
password recovery should be here
Hold down the mode button located on the left side of the front panel, while you reconnect the power cable to the switch
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-2950-series-switches/12040-pswdrec-2900xl.html
06-29-2019 12:02 PM
06-29-2019 12:10 PM - edited 06-29-2019 12:12 PM
password recovery should be here
Hold down the mode button located on the left side of the front panel, while you reconnect the power cable to the switch
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-2950-series-switches/12040-pswdrec-2900xl.html
06-29-2019 01:29 PM
Looks like your boot variable set to different one. change as below and test and advise
boot system flash:/c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE6.bin
06-29-2019 04:55 PM
06-30-2019 04:00 AM
Holding down the mode button and going through the password recovery helped.
Thanks guys.
You guys are such legends :D
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