1. Unplug the switch’s power cord �
2. Connect the switch with a hyper terminal and a control line. The settings of the hyper terminal are:
9600 baud rate
No parity
8 data bits
1 stop bit
No flow control
3. Press and hold the "mode" button on the front panel of the switch; plug in the power cord, and when the light on port 1 does not light, relax the "mode" button.
4. At this time, the hyper terminal should display: �
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
5. Enter flash_init
6. Enter load_helper
7. Enter dir flash:
This time it displays:
Directory of flash:
2 -rwx 843947 Mar 01 1993 00:02:18 C2900XL-h-mz-112.8-SA
4 drwx 3776 Mar 01 1993 01:23:24 html
66 -rwx 130 Jan 01 1970 00:01:19 env_vars
68 -rwx 1296 Mar 01 1993 06:55:51
1728000 bytes total (456704 bytes free)
8. Enter rename flash: flash:
9. Enter boot, restart the system �
10. After the system starts up, it displays: Continue with the configuration dialog? [yes/no] : Enter N
11. Enter enable
12. After entering enable mode, enter rename flash: flash:
13. Then follow the following steps:
Switch# copy flash: system:running-config
Source filename []? (press Return)
Destination filename[running-config]? (press Return)
14. Then follow the following steps:
switch#configure terminal
switch(config)#no enable secret
switch(config)#no enable password
switch(config)#exit
switch#write memory
At this time, the system will return to the state without a password
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