[tech] 7500 works... more

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've upgraded the bootflash on the 7500 to rsp-boot-mz.120-13a.bin. This 
> is good. This is sane. The bootloader can now talk to the ATA flash card 
> disk0. This is also good. It also sees the interfaces ok. This is good.

Cute!

> The problem: the damn thing doesn't load its config on reload. It then drops 
> into 12.0-13a boot and the initial config prompt. Typing 'no' and then 
> 'copy nvram:startup-config running-config' gets it running again. Go 
> figure.

Right. Have you checked out the config register? I bet I set it to
ignore loading the config from nvram at startup when I played with it
last - probably for password recovery.

Search for "Cisco 7500 Password Recovery" on CCO or something to see
what I mean.





Adrian