Difference between revisions of "Loading IOS on a switch or router via the console"
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Set the BOOT parameters so that the switch boots with the downloaded image when reloaded: | Set the BOOT parameters so that the switch boots with the downloaded image when reloaded: | ||
| − | e.g. / switch: set BOOT flash:c2900xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC8.bin <br/><br/> | + | e.g. / switch: '''set BOOT flash:c2900xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC8.bin''' <br/><br/> |
Boot the switch: | Boot the switch: | ||
| − | switch: boot <br/><br/> | + | switch: '''boot''' <br/><br/> |
Reload the switch in order to make sure that the switch boots up properly: | Reload the switch in order to make sure that the switch boots up properly: | ||
| − | switch#reload <br/><br/> | + | switch# '''reload''' <br/><br/> |
This might take very very long or even very very very very long depening on the size of the IOS you are loading. | This might take very very long or even very very very very long depening on the size of the IOS you are loading. | ||
Revision as of 13:15, 12 March 2009
If the flash has been deleted / formated and there is no IOS on the switch or router, you have to copy the new IOS via the console port.
All you have to do is to type: copy xmodem:new_file.bin flash:new_file.bin and hit return in the rommon or enable mode.
On the Hyper Terminal Menu bar, click Transfer and choose Send File.
Issue the dir flash: command in order to verify the successful copy of the file to the Flash:
Set the BOOT parameters so that the switch boots with the downloaded image when reloaded:
e.g. / switch: set BOOT flash:c2900xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC8.bin
Boot the switch:
switch: boot
Reload the switch in order to make sure that the switch boots up properly:
switch# reload
This might take very very long or even very very very very long depening on the size of the IOS you are loading.
