Re: OT : Cant get to RMON Mode

I do not like the break key as it does not always work.

For me, I like to lower the serial baud rate to 1200 on my console
connection and simulate a break seq. I then hit the space bar ... and this
works 100% of the time for me ... after a few seconds you can change the
baud rate back to 9600 and you are good. The break depends on your
application and OS. Here is a link that will help:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps133/products_tech_note09186a0080174a34.shtml

(read down the page a little for the trick I mention)

HTH,

Andrew Lee Lissitz

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Darby Weaver <darby.weaver_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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