cant configure cisco 2950

Kelly Hansen

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Hey guys
For some reason when i try to log into the cisco 2950 router i cant get in.
am i missing something or doing something wrong?




C2950 Boot Loader (C2950-HBOOT-M) Version 12.1(11r)EA1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Compiled Mon 22-Jul-02 17:18 by antonino
WS-C2950-24 starting...
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:15:2b:46:7b:00
Xmodem file system is available.

The system has been interrupted prior to initializing the
flash filesystem. The following commands will initialize
the flash filesystem, and finish loading the operating
system software:

flash_init
load_helper
boot

switch: flash_init
Unknown cmd: flashinit
switch: load_helper
switch: boot
Loading ""...: permission denied

Error loading ""

Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process.
Boot process failed...
switch:
switch:
switch: enable
Unknown cmd: enable
switch:
switch: load_helper
switch: flashinit
Unknown cmd: flashinit
switch: flash_init
Initializing Flash...
flashfs[0]: 1 files, 1 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 7741440
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 1536
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 7739904
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 5 seconds.
...done initializing flash.
Boot Sector Filesystem (bs:) installed, fsid: 3
Parameter Block Filesystem (pb:) installed, fsid: 4
switch: enable
Unknown cmd: enable
switch: conf t
Unknown cmd: conf
 
Solution
You are in bad trouble here.

This means the ios flash file is either damaged or the flash itself is damaged. If the flash is damaged then the switch goes in the trash.

If it is just a corrupted file then you get the painful task of loading a file through a terminal session using xmodem. This is back from the days when you had dialup phone modems and transferred files before the days of tcpip. It takes forever.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-2900-xl-series-switches/12036-corrupt-or-missing-image.html

The flash appear to be empty so you can just skip all the steps and try the copy xmodem command. The file name needs to match the file on your PC that you saved the IOS image as.

Cisco IOS images...
You are in bad trouble here.

This means the ios flash file is either damaged or the flash itself is damaged. If the flash is damaged then the switch goes in the trash.

If it is just a corrupted file then you get the painful task of loading a file through a terminal session using xmodem. This is back from the days when you had dialup phone modems and transferred files before the days of tcpip. It takes forever.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-2900-xl-series-switches/12036-corrupt-or-missing-image.html

The flash appear to be empty so you can just skip all the steps and try the copy xmodem command. The file name needs to match the file on your PC that you saved the IOS image as.

Cisco IOS images are licensed things so in most cases you can not just download them from cisco you will need to "find" one. There are a handful cisco lets open but I forget which switches they do that with it may only be the small business ones.
 
Solution
wonderful! that's what i thought!

thank you