Re: Urgent !!!: router ios recovery

From: michael robertson (michael_w_2ca@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 09:12:22 GMT-3


   
Hi, John, thank you for your help.

But As i don't have a pc with software. I do have
other router which has the same software. Is it
posssible to download ios image from other router?

As times runs , the class will start in afternoon, I
should fix it soon.

now the situation is that whenever the router comes up
( I reset), it always come to Rom mon mode.??help
help!!

regards

michael

--- John Neiberger <neiby@excite.com> wrote:
> For whatever reason, the router cannot find a valid
> image in flash. When the
> router is booting, send a break sequence, which
> might be hard to figure out
> depending on your terminal software. Sometimes it's
> ALT-B or CTRL-BREAK.
>
> This will drop you into rommon mode. From here you
> can use xmodem or ymodem
> to download an IOS from your terminal software. I
> have used xmodem-1k in
> the past with great success. Unfortunately, on the
> 3600 there is no option
> for tftp from this mode. You'll want to bump up the
> console port speed to
> 56k and make the same change in your terminal
> software. Otherwise it will
> take a very long time.
>
> Obviously, for this to work you'll need to have the
> IOS image on your laptop
> or PC. To make this faster, you should load a small
> image, like 12.0(x) IP
> only. Those are relatively small images and won't
> take too long. Once you
> have a valid image you can reboot and then use tftp
> to load the image you'd
> really like to have on there.
>
> HTH,
> John
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:32:29 -0400 (EDT), michael
> robertson wrote:
>
> | Hi, Dear my group friend.
> |
> | One urgent thing: I practice download from tftp
> server
> | today and after I finish download, I don't delete
> the
> | old ios file ( the same ios file name as new one,
> but
> | under different directory). then I reload, and I
> never
> | reload again. I try to go cisco website and try
> to
> | find to recover this, but not succeed. any help
> will
> | be really appreciated as the class will work on
> the
> | router tomorrow.
> |
> | here is what it says:
> |
> | C3600 processor with 65536 Kbytes of main memory
> | Main memory is configured to 32 bit mode with
> parity
> | disabled
> |
> | loadprog: bad file magic number: 0x0
> | boot: cannot load "flash:"
> | -----------
> |
> |
> | I know the downloaded file is there, and i know
> the
> | file name , but I can't login and say boot system
> | "filename". That might be my mistake???
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | Regards
> |
> |
> |
> | michael
> |
> |
>



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