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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and 3032 for Dell Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 47 Troubleshooting
Recovering from a Lost or Forgotten Password
Proceed with reload? [confirm]
y
On a stacking-capable switch:
Switch>
reload
slot
<
stack-master-member-number
>
Proceed with reload? [confirm]
y
Step 6
For stacking-capable switches, power on the rest of the switch stack.
Procedure with Password Recovery Enabled
If the password-recovery mechanism is enabled, this message appears:
The system has been interrupted prior to initializing the flash file system. The following
commands will initialize the flash file system, and finish loading the operating system
software:
flash_init
load_helper
boot
Step 1
Initialize the flash file system:
switch:
flash_init
Step 2
If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9600, it has been reset to that particular
speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that of the switch console port.
Step 3
Load any helper files:
switch:
load_helper
Step 4
Display the contents of flash memory:
switch:
dir flash:
The switch file system appears:
Directory of flash:
2 -rwx 5752 Mar 1 1993 00:06:02 +00:00 config.text
3 -rwx 24 Mar 1 1993 00:06:02 +00:00 private-config.text
4 -rwx 9995193 Mar 1 1993 00:04:31 +00:00 cbs31x0-universal-mz.122-40.EX1
6 -rwx 1147 Mar 1 1993 00:40:29 +00:00 FHH105002F6_IPBase.lic
9 -rwx 1155 Mar 1 1993 23:55:57 +00:00 FHH105002F6_IPServ.lic
10 -rwx 1161 Mar 1 1993 23:56:21 +00:00 FHH105002F6_AdvIPServ.lic
8 -rwx 8016 Mar 1 1993 00:00:51 +00:00 vlan.dat
16128000 bytes total (10003456 bytes free)
Step 5
Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
This file contains the password definition.
switch:
rename flash:
config.text
flash:
config.text.old
Step 6
Boot up the system:
switch:
boot