Cisco 2950G 24 - Catalyst Switch Software Configuration Manual page 569

Chapter 28 Troubleshooting
Step 3 Unplug the switch power cord.
Step 4 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 goes 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
Initialize the Flash file system:
Step 5
switch# flash_init
If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9600, it has been reset to that particular
Step 6
speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that of the switch console port.
Load any helper files:
Step 7
switch# load_helper
Step 8 Display the contents of Flash memory as in this example:
switch# dir flash:
The switch file system is displayed:
Directory of flash:/
3
6
171
7
172
7741440 bytes total (3884509 bytes free)
Step 9 Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
This file contains the password definition.
switch# rename flash:config.text flash:config.text.old
Step 10 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
At the switch prompt, change to privileged EXEC mode:
Step 11
switch> enable
Step 12 Rename the configuration file to its original name:
switch# rename flash:config.text.old flash:config.text
78-14982-01
drwx 10176 Mar 01 2001 00:04:34
-rwx 2343 Mar 01 2001 03:18:16
-rwx 1667997 Mar 01 2001 00:02:39
-rwx 3060 Mar 01 2001 00:14:20
-rwx 100 Mar 01 2001 00:02:54
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config.text
c2950-i6q412-mz.121-9.EA1.bin
vlan.dat
env_vars
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