Corrupt flash on a Cisco 1231G Acces Point

~ There I was uploading a new flash image to my AP .. it crashed ~ ~ Now the image is corrupt and only boots to a "AP :" prompt :( ~ ~ The command I used was .. ~ ~ archive download-sw/overwrite/ ~ tftp://10.13.66.1/c1200-k9w7-tar.123-2.JA.tar ~ ~ I have searcehed the cisco site but can find no information on ~ recovering from a disastor like this ~ ~ Any help in getting another image on there would be gratefuly ~ recieved. ~ Drop the ZZZ to reply ~ ~ Cheers ...

First things first ... you might want to be sure that the tar file on your TFTP server is valid ... e.g. use tar if on Unix or winzip if Windows to verify it.

Next, from the ap: prompt you can use tftp_init and tar -xtract to pull the tar file contents into flash.

Instructions:

Thanks for that Aaron,

With a bit of fiddling around I managed to get this to work.

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Cheers ...