Procedure With Password Recovery Enabled - Cisco Catalyst 3120 Software Manual

Chapter 47 Troubleshooting
Step 5 After recovering the password, reload the switch, the standalone switch, or the stack master.
On a switch:
Switch> reload
slot <stack-master-member-number>
Proceed with reload? [confirm] y
Power on the rest of the switch stack.
Step 6

Procedure with Password Recovery Enabled

If the password-recovery mechanism is enabled, this message appears:
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
Step 1 Initialize the flash file system:
switch: flash_init
Step 2 If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9600, it has been reset to that particular
speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that of the switch console port.
Step 3 Load any helper files:
switch: load_helper
Display the contents of flash memory:
Step 4
switch: dir flash:
The switch file system appears:
Directory of flash:
10
16128000 bytes total (10003456 bytes free)
Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
Step 5
This file contains the password definition.
switch: rename flash:config.text flash:config.text.old
Step 6 Boot up the system:
switch: boot
OL-12247-01
2 -rwx 5752 Mar 1 1993 00:06:02 +00:00
3 -rwx 24 Mar 1 1993 00:06:02 +00:00
4 -rwx 9995193 Mar 1 1993 00:04:31 +00:00
6 -rwx 1147 Mar 1 1993 00:40:29 +00:00
9 -rwx 1155 Mar 1 1993 23:55:57 +00:00
-rwx 1161 Mar 1 1993 23:56:21 +00:00
8 -rwx 8016 Mar 1 1993 00:00:51 +00:00
Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 for HP Software Configuration Guide
Recovering from a Lost or Forgotten Password
config.text
private-config.text
cbs31x0-universal-mz.122-40.EX
FHH105002F6_IPBase.lic
FHH105002F6_IPServ.lic
FHH105002F6_AdvIPServ.lic
vlan.dat
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