Procedure With Password Recovery Enabled - Cisco WS-C3750-48PS-S Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 39 Troubleshooting

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
Initialize the flash file system:
Step 1
switch: flash_init
If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9600, it has been reset to that particular
Step 2
speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that of the switch console port.
Load any helper files:
Step 3
switch: load_helper
Step 4 Display the contents of flash memory:
switch: dir flash:
The switch file system appears:
Directory of flash:
13
11
18
16128000 bytes total (10003456 bytes free)
Step 5 Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
This file contains the password definition.
switch: rename flash: config.text flash: config.text.old
Boot the system:
Step 6
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, enter privileged EXEC mode:
Step 7
Switch> enable
Rename the configuration file to its original name:
Step 8
Switch# rename flash: config.text.old flash: config.text
Note
78-16180-02
drwx 192 Mar 01 1993 22:30:48
-rwx 5825 Mar 01 1993 22:31:59
-rwx 720 Mar 01 1993 02:21:30
Before continuing to Step 9, power on any connected stack members and wait until they have
completely initialized.
Recovering from a Lost or Forgotten Password
c3750-i5-mz-121-1.0
config.text
vlan.dat
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