Help me recover a password on a 2900 series switch

Paul Boz · April 2007

On the surface this seems like a newbie question, but its really pretty tough. I'm trying to install IOS on a WS-C2908-XL (just IOS 11.x since it doesn't have enough memory for 12.x) but I get a permission denied error on the boot loader screen. I tried the password recovery procedure found here: click me but I don't have config.text in my flash directory so I can't proceed. There's no version of IOS installed in flash either, so even the boot command is worthless.

Does anyone have a suggestion? I've tried everything I can think of

DW [banned] · April 2007

Thanks

Paul Boz · April 2007

I'm at the tail end of a shift at work (got about an hour and a half to go thank god) in which about 10 of my field sites were on battery backup due to the thrashing Louisiana just took from the weather. I don't have it in me to even bother with it right now, but I'll definitely try this tomorrow night!

Thanks much.

DW [banned] · April 2007

Thanks

Paul Boz · April 2007

Oh it's fine, I have a cisco.com login so I can get all of the images I need.

I'm also not worried about xfer speed because my shifts are 12 hours a piece, so it's a complete non-issue!

Thanks again for the help darby, your IE thread is encouraging

Help me recover a password on a 2900 series switch

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