We've got hold of a few old dinosaurs that will still be useful to us, some 2500's, some 4500's and a 2621. I've been able to send a break and go through the PW recovery sequence easily with some of them, but a two of them -- specially a 2514 I'm working with right now -- just won't see a break signal from TeraTerm, Hyperterm or half a dozen emulators from TuCows. Is there a physical way to get it to boot to rommon, jumper or short-across, something like that?
Thanks in advance,
Bob W.
Not saying this is your answer, but when you're stuck, it rarely hurts to read another document.
The following document can be found on the Cisco web site:
Standard Break Key Sequence Combinations During Password Recovery Document ID: 12818
Best Regards, News Reader
RoverDrover wrote:
Thanks, News Reader. I did go get that list of break sequences, I'd forgotten they were there. But with both the 2514 and the 4500 I'm getting SOME response but not the right one. Here's what it looks like
Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Sat 19-Jul-03 13:21 by cmong System Bootstrap, Version 5.2(8a), RELEASE SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-1995 by cisco Systems
2500 processor with 8192 Kbytes of main memory(I send break here)
Abort at 0x10EA81C (PC)
Exception: Jump to zero at 0x2244 (PC)
System Bootstrap, Version 5.2(8a), RELEASE SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-1995 by cisco Systems
2500 processor with 8192 Kbytes of main memory..... and then it goes ahead with a normal boot
Thats not what the document says to do for a 2500? They are old schoool.
Read this link.
Thanks Doug. That was exactly what I needed. When it didn't say rommon> I thought it hadn't responded to the break. > o/r 0x2141 got me right in. Appreciate the quick help.
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