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I bought a Cisco Catalyst switch from a hamfest (amateur radio swap meet) and am trying to get it working. I am a retired software engineer and am just looking to get this working. I can connect to it through a serial conection and can run some ini...
I tried several times to boot the terminal and get to the "Press RETURN to get started!" prompt. As soon as that message the stuff following it shows up. No time to press RETURN. What next?
Tried that. Never got the prompts. Log attachedü Booting...Interface GE 0 link down***ERROR: PHY link is downGetting rest of imageReading full image into memory...Check base package header ...: done = 16384Getting rest of imageReading full image in...
Did not seem to like that:Booting...Interface GE 0 link down***ERROR: PHY link is downThe system has been interrupted prior to initializing somefilesystems and loading the operating system software.Console will be reset to 9600 baud rate, need to cha...
I finally got one switch that seems to be responding like I expect. I would still like to get the other switch on line. Attached is a trace of the first switch. It never ask:Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]:Is the...