Re: OT : Cant get to RMON Mode

Delete your IOS on your flash or put in another directory (just in case you
are not familiar with how to set up loading it remotely).

That should do it.

Sometimes even if you don't specify the location of the IOS the device will
still find it.

So use a unique name for the directory you move it to.

Just a thought.

I don't recall ever intentionally booting myself to rommon. Having all my
gear from ebay over the years - it's made me a bit of a mater of the art.

If you really want to see it happen and practice - lemme know.

I've got a 7505 that I'm running 12.4.x on and the image was too big for the
bootflash: so if I don't specify in the config where to find the image
(correct order in my case) for the bootflash: it will happliy boot to
rommon.

The trick is unless it finds the bootflash: image it will never load the
full image since the full image is on a PCMCIA Flash card that is too big
and needs the correct version of IOS (on the bootflash:) to recognize the
card in order to load the 12.4.x version I want to run.

I can make this available to you if you want to experiment with it - I guess
I could give you a TFTP Server to boot it from too if you need it to test
this method of booting.

FYI - When you set the config register you told it to bypass the config but
you also told it to boot normally. Two different objectives.

Someone already posted a config register setting to address that scenario.

Later

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Mohamed El Henawy <m.henawy_at_link.net>wrote:

> Hello Group ,
>
> I'm trying to be more familiar with the RMON..just incase..
>
> I have changed the config register and enabled password recovery and when I
> hit break during reloading all what happen is that the config is not loaded
> but I don't get to the RMON options...even though it appears its booted in
> RMON
>
> any idea?
>
>
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