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Chapter47 Troubleshooting Recovering from a Lost or Forgotten Password
slot <stack-master-member-number>
Proceed with reload? [confirm] y
Step6 For stacking-capable switches, power on the rest of the switch stack.
Procedure with Password Recovery Enabled
If the password-recovery mechanism is enabled, t h is mes sa ge ap p ears :
The system has been interrupted prior to initializing the flash file system. The following
commands will initialize the flash file system, and finish loading the operating system
software:
flash_init
load_helper
boot
Step1 Initialize the flash file system:
switch: flash_init
Step2 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.
Step3 Load any helper files:
switch: load_helper
Step4 Display the contents of flash memory:
switch: dir flash:
The switch file system appears:
Directory of flash:
2 -rwx 5752 Mar 1 1993 00:06:02 +00:00 config.text
3 -rwx 24 Mar 1 1993 00:06:02 +00:00 private-config.text
4 -rwx 9995193 Mar 1 1993 00:04:31 +00:00 cbs31x0-universal-mz.122-40.EX1
6 -rwx 1147 Mar 1 1993 00:40:29 +00:00 FHH105002F6_IPBase.lic
9 -rwx 1155 Mar 1 1993 23:55:57 +00:00 FHH105002F6_IPServ.lic
10 -rwx 1161 Mar 1 1993 23:56:21 +00:00 FHH105002F6_AdvIPServ.lic
8 -rwx 8016 Mar 1 1993 00:00:51 +00:00 vlan.dat
16128000 bytes total (10003456 bytes free)
Step5 Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
This file contains the password definition.
switch: rename flash:config.text flash:config.text.old
Step6 Boot up the system:
switch: boot
Step7 At the switch prompt, enter privileged EXEC mode:
Switch> enable
Step8 Rename the configuration file to its original name:
Switch# rename flash:config.text.old flash:config.text