My god, I actually managed to find it! Yay internet! For those who may be looking for help on password recovery for the 3850 switch in the future, I'll post what I found. I ended up resetting the switch because, well, easier. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3850/hardware/quick/guide/cat3850_gsg.html#wp46478 - reset procedures found here http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3850/software/release/3.2_0_se/system_management/configuration_guide/b_sm_32se_3850_cg_chapter_010001.html#concept_6E610BCFF5174E498454F09CB6489799 -this has a password recovery procedure that... sort of worked for me (but not completely, thus my choosing to reset rather than fiddle with it). Hope that's helpful to someone else down the line! -Jen ... View more

I did. Flash was already initialized. I get the same error when I do a rename flash:nvram_config flash:nvram_config.old, as well. Read only file system. When I do a ?, the command list it gives me is this: switch: ?            ? -- Present list of available commands          arp -- Show arp table or arp-resolve an address         boot -- Load and boot an executable image          cat -- Concatenate (type) file(s)         copy -- Copy a file       delete -- Delete file(s)          dir -- List files in directories emergency-install -- Initiate Disaster Recovery   flash_init -- Initialize filesystem(s)       format -- Format a filesystem         fsck -- Check filesystem consistency         help -- Present list of available commands    mgmt_init -- initialize management port        mkdir -- Create dir(s)         more -- Concatenate (display) file(s)         ping -- Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a network host       rename -- Rename a file        reset -- Reset the system        rmdir -- Delete empty dir(s)          set -- Set or display environment variables       set_bs -- Set attributes on a boot sector filesystem    set_param -- Set system parameters in flash         type -- Concatenate (type) file(s)        unset -- Unset one or more environment variables      version -- Display boot loader version Any thoughts? ... View more

Was worth a shot... unfortunately, it won't let me copy/rename that file as it's read only, apparently. The permissions don't look like that... but when I do this, I get the following error: switch: copy flash:nvram_config flash:nvram_config.old flash:nvram_config.old: read only file system Assuming I did that right to begin with (did I mention I'm pretty new to all of this? Heh.), do you know of any way I can work around that and try to do it anyway? ... View more

I've noticed! *lol* What I've found about resetting passwords seems to assume you're in priveledged EXEC already - which would be part of the problem, really. I can do a dir flash:. This is what I get: 54209  drwx  4096       .     2  drwx  4096       .. 54210  -rw-  2097152    nvram_config 54211  -rw-  74410468   cat3k_caa-base.SPA.03.02.00SE.pkg 54212  -rw-  2773680    cat3k_caa-drivers.SPA.03.02.00.SE.pkg 54213  -rw-  32478044   cat3k_caa-infra.SPA.03.02.00SE.pkg 54214  -rw-  30393116   cat3k_caa-iosd-universalk9.SPA.150-1.EX.pkg 54215  -rw-  18313952   cat3k_caa-platform.SPA.03.02.00.SE.pkg 54216  -rw-  63402700   cat3k_caa-wcm.SPA.10.0.100.0.pkg 54217  -rw-  1218       packages.conf 54218  -rw-  556        vlan.dat 54219  -rw-  57         express_setup.debug Not sure if that helps at all. ... View more

I have... there doesn't appear to be a "config.text" file in the flash: directory, and it's giving me an unknown cmd error on load_helper. ... View more