I have been trying to recover this CAT3850 since last week. I learned yesterday that usb drive needed to be formatted FAT16. I reformatted usb drive which contained IOS XE bin files. I tried to install 16.12.05b. Installer fails. Here is output ...
Hello. I have a CAT3850-24S-E. Before upgrade attempt I had IOS XE 16.12.05b. I attempted upgrade using cat3k-universalk9.16.16.06.SPA.bin. Following reload, system never returned. I connected to serial console port. System attempts boot and fa...
It took a couple of iterations, but I now have a flash: and the switch survives a power cycle. Now working on restoring configuration. Thank you for your assistance.
Are you able to take off the SPAM tag? It is an important discussion item. It took me 45 minutes to manually type all of the log info as the system is not connected to any network. Thank you.Tom Werner
I replied to several posts here. I got past the USB FAT16 issue. Now I seem to have lost the flash: filesystem. I posted a separate discussion topic with all of the logging, but somebody marked it a SPAM and it is gone! I do not understand why it...
Thank you for your response. I reformatted USB as FAT16 and can now attempt "emergency-install". The install fails due to missing "flash:" filesystem. I opened a new discussion topic. I included contents of "set" in new discussion before attempti...
