What did you mean with "locked"? Are you missing the password to enter the priviliged user mode? In this case it should be no problem to break the starting sequence and change the config register. Then you can start without startup-config, enter the priviliged mode and load the startup config an renew the passwords. If you need more help just ask ;-)
The router is a 2651XM with the laster boot rom and 1x128mb DRAM
The router had in the config the "no service password recovery". Someore removed the flash memory (I suppose a 32mb one - the router HAD a total of 16onboard+32 added)
The router doesn't boot because cannot find flash.
If I think that was loaded a large IOS, it could be disposed a bit on the onboard flash, another piece in the added ram.
If i use a 2621XM with 16+32, and I load onto in 4 files (12.3(20) IPBASE that is about 7mb, if I load 4 different filenames .bin , there should be 2 ios on the onboard flash and someone else on the extra ram???
System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(8r) [cmong 8r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 2003 by cisco Systems, Inc. C2600 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
PASSWORD RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED getdirent: bad file magic number, possibly out of sync boot: cannot determine first file name on device "flash:"
You'll need an IOS with the "no password recovery" recovery feature on the flash: filesystem which must be large enough (16MB for IP BASE) to hold one complete image. Feature introduced with 12.3(14)T or 12.4 mainline.
Without an up-and-running IOS there's no way out of this infinite loop, as you cannot break into rommon. You can only reset to complete factory defaults for a few seconds after the IOS is decompressed, but hasn't booted.
Ah, there isn't an easy way out. You must have moved forward on the purchase.
I think your best bet is to find somebody that has a good 2650XM, get them to flash your borked image flash SIMM with a good image. Put that flash SIMM back in yours, let it do the password recovery sequence, and remove the 'no service password recovery' so it won't hinder you again.
The problem is that 'no service password recovery' is designed to lock people out of the box when its in an unsecured location. People didn't like ending up with bricks, so there became an option over time to undo it, but only while a good IOS is booting. You're double done over by having that feature enabled, and not having a good IOS booting.
SO, to undo it, you'll need have it boot somehow without being able to get to ROMMON to take care of it. The easiest by far was is to proceed with another 2650XM's flash SIMM, but people probably won't like that, so, getting them to fixup yours might be an option. The last option would be to reprogram the contents of the cookie PRAM somehow, but that is going to be very dangerous, and very delicate, with a 98% likelyhood you'll fry it all beyond help unless you reprogram in-circuit chips all the time (not something a normal network person would be doing, more like an embedded systems developer).
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