[tech] 7500 works... more

Grahame Bowland (UCC) grahame at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Nov 18 22:21:38 WST 2002


On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:08:57PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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.

That was it - should have thought of that!

It's happily running 12.1.9a now :-)

We officially have an incredibly useful router. I'll set up authentication 
nicely now and let people know how to access it in person.

Cheers
Grahame


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