Cisco 2950 - Catalyst Switch Configuration Manual page 619

Chapter 32 Troubleshooting
Step 4 Press the Mode button, and at the same time, reconnect the power cord to the switch.
You can release the Mode button a second or two after the LED above port 1X turns off. Several lines
of information about the software appear, as do instructions:
The system has been interrupted prior to initializing the flash file system. These
commands will initialize the flash file system, and finish loading the operating system
software:
flash_init
load_helper
boot
Step 5 Initialize the flash file system:
switch# flash_init
If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9600, it has been reset to that particular
Step 6
speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that of the switch console port.
Load any helper files:
Step 7
switch# load_helper
Display the contents of flash memory:
Step 8
switch# dir flash:
The switch file system appears in the directory.
Step 9 Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
This file contains the password definition.
switch# rename flash:config.text flash:config.text.old
Boot the system:
Step 10
switch# boot
You are prompted to start the setup program. Enter N at the prompt:
Continue with the configuration dialog? [yes/no]: N
Step 11 At the switch prompt, change to privileged EXEC mode:
switch> enable
Step 12 Rename the configuration file to its original name:
switch# rename flash:config.text.old flash:config.text
Step 13 Copy the configuration file into memory:
switch# copy flash:config.text system:running-config
Source filename [config.text]?
Destination filename [running-config]?
Press Return in response to the confirmation prompts.
The configuration file is now reloaded, and you can use the following normal commands to change the
password.
Enter global configuration mode:
Step 14
switch# configure terminal
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