Invoking The Restore Process - Cisco 750 Getting Started Manual

Before You Begin
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Before you begin this step, you may want to save your restore configuration for later use. For more information,
see Saving and Loading Restore Configurations, page
To download and mount the ISO image:
1. From the restore utility main menu, select
2. When prompted, confirm your choice. If you are downloading from an SCP server, enter your password when
prompted.
The appropriate files are downloaded and mounted.
What to Do Next
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Continue with the next section,

Invoking the Restore Process

After you download and mount the ISO image, you are ready to invoke the restore process. If you are restoring an
appliance to a different major version from the version currently installed on the appliance, a two-pass restore
process is required. The first pass updates the operating system, and the second pass installs the new version of
the system software.
First Pass of Two (Changing Major Versions Only)
When restoring an appliance to a different major version, a first pass by the restore utility updates the appliance's
operating system, and, if necessary, the restore utility itself.
Note: If you are restoring an appliance to the same major version, or if this is your second pass through the
process, skip to the next procedure:
To perform the first pass of a two-pass restore process:
1. From the restore utility main menu, select
2. When prompted (twice), confirm that you want to reboot the appliance.
3. Monitor the reboot and invoke the restore process again:
If the system is performing a database check, you may see the following message:
operational yet. Checking and repairing database are in progress. This may take a long time to finish.
For a keyboard and monitor connection, quickly press one of the arrow keys to prevent the appliance from
booting the currently installed version of the system.
For a serial or SOL/LOM connection, when you see the BIOS boot options, press Tab slowly and repeatedly
until the LILO boot prompt appears. For example:
LILO 22.8 boot:
System-5.4 System_Restore
4. Indicate that you want to restore the system:
— For a keyboard and monitor connection, use the arrow keys to select
— For a serial or SOL/LOM connection, type
In either case, the
0. Load with standard console
1. Load with serial console
Cisco Firepower Management Center Getting Started Guide
4 Download and Mount ISO
Invoking the Restore
Second or Only Pass, page
5 Run the Install
prompt appears after the following choices:
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Restoring a Firepower Management Center to Factory Defaults
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