Emergency Restore of the boot.cfg File

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Emergency Restore of the boot.cfg File

If all copies of the boot.cfg file have been deleted and a system boot has occurred, network configuration information is permanently lost. However, if the files have been deleted and no boot has occurred you can issue a write memory command to regenerate the boot.cfg file.

Can I Restore the boot.file While Running from Certified?

Yes. While it is not recommended that you routinely save configuration changes while running from the certified directory, you can perform an emergency restore of your configuration by following the steps:

1Copy your current configuration to a manually-generated boot.cfg file in the /flash directory by enter- ing the following command:

-> configuration snapshot all boot.cfg

2Copy the new boot.cfg file from the /flash directory to the /flash/working directory using the cp command. For example:

-> cp boot.cfg working/boot.cfg

3Reboot the switch from the /flash/working directory by entering the following command:

-> reload working no rollback-timeout

Once the boot.cfg file is confirmed to be good, it needs to be saved to the certified directory using the procedure described in “Copying the Working Directory to the Certified Directory” on page 4-20.

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