Router Booted to Weird Prompt

Jan 23, 2008 2 Replies
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I have a two Cisco 2500 routers in my practice lab. My lab lost power and the routers rebooted. One of them came up with this prompt:



When I type h I get this listing of commands:


h

$ Toggle cache state B [filename] [TFTP Server IP address | TFTP Server Name] Load and execute system image from ROM or from TFTP server C [address] Continue execution [optional address] D /S M L V Deposit value V of size S into location L with modifier M E /S M L Examine location L with size S with modifier M G [address] Begin execution H Help for commands I Initialize K Stack trace L [filename] [TFTP Server IP address | TFTP Server Name] Load system image from ROM or from TFTP server, but do not begin execution O Show configuration register option settings P Set the break point S Single step next instruction T function Test device (? for help)


Deposit and Examine sizes may be B (byte), L (long) or S (short). Modifiers may be R (register) or S (byte swap). Register names are: D0-D7, A0-A6, SS, US, SR, and PC



Does anyone know what causes this? Also, how to get back to normal i.e., booting and loading my config from NVRAM?


Thanks


Your router is in the ROM monitor. It may be that the firmware is corrupt or that the config register is set wrongly, or that your terminal has sent a break at the wrong moment. The console messages before the '>' prompt should tell you which it is. Try typing B to boot again and see what happens; alternatively if you're familiar with config register manipulation then try the O command and set the config register

- 0x2102 is the usual value. Search

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2500" for more advice.

Sam

I did this and I am back in business. I typed B and it booted into boot> I did a show ver and found that the register had mysteriously changed from 0x2102. I changed it, reloaded with no to saving changes and it came up in user exec mode.

Thanks

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