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Catalyst 2940 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter26 Troubleshooting Using Recovery Procedures
Step4 Press the Mode button, and at the same time, reconnect the power cord to the switch.
You can release the Mode button a second or two after the LED above port 1X turns off. Several lines
of information about the software appear, as do instructions:
The system has been interrupted prior to initializing the flash file system. These
commands will initialize the flash file system, and finish loading the operating system
software:
flash_init
load_helper
boot
Step5 Initialize the Flash file system:
switch# flash_init
Step6 If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9 600, it ha s be en re set to t hat p artic ula r
speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that of the switch console port.
Step7 Load any helper files:
switch# load_helper
Step8 Display the contents of Flash memory as in this example:
switch# dir flash:
The switch file system is displayed:
Directory of flash:/
3 drwx 10176 Mar 01 2001 00:04:34 html
6 -rwx 2343 Mar 01 2001 03:18:16 config.text
171 -rwx 1667997 Mar 01 2001 00:02:39 c2950-i6q412-mz.121-9.EA1.bin
7 -rwx 3060 Mar 01 2001 00:14:20 vlan.dat
172 -rwx 100 Mar 01 2001 00:02:54 env_vars
7741440 bytes total (3884509 bytes free)
Step9 Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
This file contains the password definition.
switch# rename flash:config.text flash:config.text.old
Step10 Boot the system:
switch# boot
You are prompted to start the setup program. Enter N at the prompt:
Continue with the configuration dialog? [yes/no]: N
Step11 At the switch prompt, change to privileged EXEC mode:
switch> enable
Step12 Rename the configuration file to its original name:
switch# rename flash:config.text.old flash:config.text
Step13 Copy the configuration file into memory:
switch# copy flash:config.text system:running-config
Source filename [config.text]?
Destination filename [running-config]?