Cisco 804 Booting from ROMMON (boot#)-Not Desired

[rlr685rlr]

Without configuring my 804 to do so, it has begun booting in ROMMON mode. I have the boot# CLI and I have to paste the flash file name. My console message began showing this message: Note: IOS boot is disabled, router will boot to TinyROM

upon reboot (not recommend for remotely administered routers).

What are the commands/configuration to return the 804 to boot from IOS image and not ROMMON mode?

[mhussein · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It could be that the "config-register" configuration has changed, due to either a bug or IOS upgrade.

Issue "show version" to see the current config-register setting. Change it to 0x2102:

router(config)#config-register 0x2102

router#copy run start

or if you are at the rommon prompt:

set ios-conf=0x2102

Then try rebooting again to see if it works.

References:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_fix/cis2000/c2000qs/22812.htm

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/fn13141.shtml

Please let us know if that helped

Regards,

Mustafa

[rlr685rlr]

Perfect, Mustafa. I didn't have a copy of sh version saved, and had seen 0x2102 tied to something else on some other text logs I had saved. But I wasn't sure that was the right config register for the 804. By the way, the config register had changed to (or at least was reading) 0x0. Thanks again.

[bjosu]

Hello you should set ios-conf to 0x2102 that is the default value.

Command should look something like set ios-conf = 0x2102.

Regards Bjorn Sundin