2501 Hangs at bootstrap
Hi Everyone,
I'm working on my CCNA and bought two 2501s. Both have 16megs of flash and RAM, they are not identical, they were made at differen times and the mainboards look slightly different. One works perfectly. The other seems to hang at or right after the bootstrap:
----------- System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c)XB2, PLATFORM SPECIFIC RELEASE SOFTWARE fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-1998 by cisco Systems
2500 processor with 14336 Kbytes of main memory-----------
It never goes beyond the above text. If I CTRL-BRK the router, I get to the ">" prompt which I believe is ROMmon. If I set "o/r 0x2101", then "i", the router will reboot, but it will once again get stuck. I can still get into ROMmon, but I have no clue what to do beyond that.
All of the recovery procedures that I've been able to find involved settings 0x2101 and getting past the bootstrap then using TFTP to download a new IOS bin file. Is it possible to do the TFTP from within ROMmon? it seems I have some commands available to me when I do a "?", but I don't see any way to set the IP address of the TFTP server.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know its pretty silly to be wasting time on a ten year old router, but I certainly learn alot more when things don't work right.
Nicholas
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by encoad in Cisco Systems
