Unable to boot a ws-c2960-48tc-l, recovered switches and routers before but this one stuck me.

[thompson318]

Any suggestions??

This is where I'm at:

I'm using Secure CRT with a baud rate of 115220

switch: set BAUD 115200

switch: format flash:

switch: copy xmodem: flash:c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE6.bin

switch: set BAUD 9600

switch: boot flash:c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE6.bin

switch: boot

Loading "c2960s-universalk9-mz.152-1.E2.bin"...c2960s-universalk9-mz.152-1.E2.bin: no such device

or 

switch: boot flash:c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE6.bin
Loading "flash:c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE6.bin"...flash:c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE6.bin: magic number mismatch: bad mzip file

Error loading "flash:c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE6.bin"

[Leo Laohoo]

If you're at ROMmon, do the following: 

flash_init

dir flash:

Post the output to the last command.

One more thing, before you uploaded the BIN file to the switch, did you happen to compare the MD5 hash value of the BIN file against the MD5 hash value found in the Cisco website?  They need to match or your effort is futile.

[osamasalman]

hello thompson318,

most probably the following mentioned error/ messages you are getting is due to bad IOS, the IOS is corrupted, i would suggest you to use another well-known working/ verified IOS and to upload it to the switch using Xmodem...

magic number mismatch: bad mzip file

here is some links for your reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTO5qxti-I

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/routers/2600-series-multiservice-platforms/15085-xmodem-generic.html

please note, if there is no enough space on the flash to handle the new and the old IOS image, i would suggest you to upload old/small IOS to fits into the flash, then you can delete the old corrupted one and to upgrade to new IOS image...

Kind Regards,

/Osama