Cisco Switching/Routing :: 3500XL Switch - Does Not Load Flash Or Boots
Dec 8, 2011
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:0a:b7:07:35:80Xmodem file system is available. The system has been interrupted prior to initializing theflash filesystem. The following commands will initialize the flash filesystem, and finish loading the operating system software:
flash_init load_helper boot switch: flash_initInitializing Flash...flashfs[0]: 3 files, 1 directoriesflashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directoriesflashfs[0]: Total bytes: 3612672flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 1815040flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 1797632flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 3 seconds....done Initializing Flash.Boot Sector Filesystem (bs:) installed, fsid: 3Parameter Block Filesystem (pb:) installed, fsid: 4ô
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Dec 7, 2011
I am trying to configure a switch that was given to me. They don't know the password to anything. I have already tried to recover it. The problem is, the switch doesn't load flash, or will copy flash from xmodem either. It also doesnt load the helper or boot. It is user mode and lets me do nothing. It doesnt let me use the enable command to get into it. I would like to start the config from scratch. Its a 3500xl switch, 24 ports. I dont know what to do with it. I am trying to study for my CCENT Exam and would like a switch that worked.
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Apr 22, 2012
I've gotten this out of our storage unit here at work: This was not in use, I've restarted it, I can't get into the flash dir,I've tried to restart the switch via the documents I've gotten on the site.I have the lastest iOS version .bin for this switch, but I can't get this to load: here below is what happens when I try.
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Mar 4, 2012
Can I have two different routers (different subnets) on one cisco 3500XL switch and still be able to communicate between the two? If so how can I do it?
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Apr 3, 2013
I was in the process of recovering a password on a nexus 5548 swith when it finally gets in to the boot mode.I think i lost all my bootloader code.How do i get it back on the switch
loader> load n5000-uk9.5.0.3.N2.1.bin
Error 27: Unrecognized command
how to restore my IOS on this device
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Sep 5, 2012
My understanding is that even layer 2 switches like the Cisco 3500XL can have 1 IP address for management. However, I cannot seem to figure out how to configure it to get it working in a router on a stick setup. I can manage the router through SSH, but I cannot SSH to the switch.
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Feb 23, 2012
have a Switch I bought off a guy at work. Just to get into the Switching world of Cisco. He doesnt know the password on it and i cant reset the switch. I would like to mess around with it more but it doesnt load the flash or helper. It just sits there and holds. I have tried the password recovery and everything. Trust me, everything is correct, but it wont work for me. I cant load a new image to it because I dont have access to a server to get it from.
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:0a:8a:94:58:c0Xmodem file system is available.
The system has been interrupted prior to initializing theflash filesystem. The following commands will initializethe flash filesystem, and finish loading the operatingsystem software:
flash_init load_helper boot
switch: flash_initInitializing Flash...flashfs[0]: 3 files, 1 directoriesflashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directoriesflashfs[0]: Total bytes: 3612672flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 1815040flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 1797632flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 3 seconds....done Initializing Flash.Boot Sector Filesystem (bs:) installed, fsid: 3Parameter Block Filesystem (pb:) installed, fsid: 4û
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Mar 5, 2013
I am trying to configure a 3500XL switch (and I know its old). I get to the int fa 0/1 line and thats where it all stops working.
switch#(config-if)#switch port mode access
switch#copy run start
or
switch#(config-if)#switch port mode access
switch#sh run int fa 0/1
It will show the configuration for port fa 0/1 as if I hadn't entered the "switch port mode access" command. Or any other command for that matter. Why the switch is not holding configuration and seemingly loses it as soon as you exit out of each interface?
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May 9, 2012
i have recently tried to change the catos on a Catalyst 2948G-L3 and since then i have the following message in a loop :I know that the solution would be to download a new valid image from tftp via the rommon prompt but what i dont undertand is why i cant access the rommon prompt. It justs boots with the message above in a loop
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Jan 23, 2013
In a switch catalyst 2960 the IOS is erasing in flash, for the transfer IOs respalding to flash no function the current command. how is the method.
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Can a C3560-24PS switch with 32 MB flash be loaded with IOS 15? Will it be able to execute the code and function properly?
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Oct 5, 2010
I have a cisco 3750 swicth which i want to load a new ios to but unfortunately there's no enough space on the flash. This means that i need to backup the cureent (old) ios to my tftp server but the command keeps failing. It always gives 'No such file or directory' error .The free space on the flash is 8mb and my new ios is about 11mb.I also went inside the directory where the old is and inputed the same copy command but to no avail.Below are some of the command failure on the swicth:
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Feb 26, 2012
Trying to copy the system image file from the sup-bootflash to a new 64MB ATA flash card. Yes the software can support the 64MB card.
The ATA flash card was formated successfully, however I cannot copy the system image to it so that it can boot after a power loss.
The command I tried was: console(enabled) copy sup-bootflash: slot0:
The source filename was typed in as shown in the Show Verison command.The result was: Error opening slot0: no such device.I suspect that I am missing something obvious as I am new to Cisco Switches.
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Apr 27, 2012
I have a POE switch running 12.0(5). I have port 24 connected as a trunk connected to the main switch. I need to add an ip address on vlan 21 which is where the network vlan is. I created it but I can not seem to enable it. I have issued the no shut command several times, but doing "sh ip int brief" it keeps showing up as administively down.
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Jan 9, 2013
I am using an Old 3500XL and I simply created a
interface VLAN 100
Description ***********
ip address 10.0.1.100 255.255.255.248
no ip directed-broadcast
no ip route-cache
shutdown
no matter what I do i cannot get it to come up, the rest of the switch is default config, I know I am just forgetting something, But I don't know what?
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Dec 27, 2012
Got a long lingering, year long issue that has spanned about 8 supervisor cards and a complete chassis swap. The 6509 acts as a ITN in our facility. The active sup card at random points of pipe usage boots into rommon mode, seriously inhibiting our company. I'm able to swap the 2 fiber pairs that we had going into the active supervisor card into the secondary and usually this works for another random amount of time, however, today it occured within minutes of hooking up the fiber links. Sitting there for about 5 minutes it booted into ROMMON. When this happens, I'm able to boot the sup card back to good status. Previous remedial actions, other than replacing sup cards/chassis, was checking the config register and making sure it was x2102. Previously, it was not, and we corrected and reloaded and it took, we thought this would fix the problem, until today.
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Nov 19, 2012
I'd like to know if is it possible to load lan base image on Cisco Switch 2960 TC-S. This model (WS-C2960-48TC-S) come with lan lite image and it's the same (phisically) of the 2960 TC-L (lan base image).If I try to upload the lan base image on flash of 2960 TC-S will works?? ..or the switch goes damaged?
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Oct 31, 2011
I've 3750X switch that isn't loading email. then I went to rommon mode and accidently for "format flash". after that I loaded 15.0 SE2 s/w on it using tftp server but it doesn't boot up with that image. flash had only .bin file after I loaded it from tftp server.
since it wasn't booting up, I did format flash again and thought to load image again from tftp server but now, it doesn't load image from tftp server.
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Jan 13, 2012
We have two core switches in our network (Cisco WS-4503). HSRP is working as Active-Standby mode. Recently it has been found that core 1 (which is in active mode) shown high CPU load (60% - 100%). Also found that the below mentioned process takes more CPU. Our network consist of around 30 Vlans. We have already checked for the solution in Cisco website [URL] but couldn't find exact reason. see the below outputs for core 1 switch.
Core1# sh processes cpu sorted
CPU utilization for five seconds: 55%/3%; one minute: 65%; five minutes: 71%PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process 30 1606933521086983644 147 24.79% 29.93% 35.85% 0 Cat4k Mgmt LoPri 29
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Jul 10, 2012
I'm configuring a catalyst 3500XL, but I'm having a problem, when I connect an ip phone it works just fine but if I connect a computer to the pc port in the phone the computer doesn't get an ip address. The switch is configure with two vlans Voice and Data and is connected from fa0/24 to a Catalyst 3560 fa0/46. I did configure both ports as trunk.
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Oct 14, 2012
I am trying to trunk between a 3Com 4800g and a Cisco 3500xl. I can get the a PC that connects to a vlan 1 port on thecisco switch to connect to the 3com switch and get connectivity. However, I cannot get anthing on the cisco switch that is on vlan 2 to connect and get dhcp. I am not a 3com guy, so I am not familiar with the command and configs.We have 2 vlans on both switches: Vlan 1 is Admin and Vlan 2 is Student.
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Mar 7, 2012
I have an old Cisco 3500XL I am using for my home lab, but was wondering can I use the fiber ports to connect to my PC. I have to correct NIC interfaces but no link indication. I did make sure the port was no down, but sill not link.
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Oct 24, 2012
I'm fairly new to networking and need to migrate an old core to a new core. I have a 6509-e Switch that I had an RMA on one of my 720 sup cards. After receiving the sup card I swapped my slave out with the new one, expecting it to boot into ios. It booted into Roman. I tried to boot the image manually and it did the same thing. I also tried to boot from my flash and, again, booted into ROMmon.
Question: If i configure and change the boot to boot from image it tells me i need to reset or power cycle first. Will this reset the entire switch? As this is production I'd rather not.
I am at home now, but I can supply any logs/hardware model/configs tomorrow. I thought I would see if this is an easy fix.
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Jul 7, 2012
i have several cisco 3500XL switches with trunking. I created a VLAN lets say 20 which purpose is for wireless clients. I installed wireless controller with 4 APs and controllers sees all 4 APs. Controller is also DCHP server. When wireless client authenticates it's DCHP requests in not getting to DHCP server (controller). If i connect all equipment in non managed switch everything works.
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Jul 18, 2012
I have several Cata 3500XL switches connected to one 1 HP L3 switch which is connected Sonicwall router. Vlan1 has subnet of 10.10.0.0/24 and Microsoft DCHP server lays inside VLAN1.
Now i want to add VLAN11 (192.168.10.0/24) as second data VLAN but DHCP requests should go to microsoft DCHP server.
This is what i did:
Configured VLAN11 IP on each cisco switch
IP default gateway with IP from other subnet (i guess this is bad since maybe it should be IP of VLAN11 on HP L3 switch?)
Trunk ports are configured to pass everything on cisco switches
On VLAN11 i configured IPhelper IP to be MS DHCP server on each Cisco switch
I haven't tested this yet but i have problem in process.I can't ping VLAN11 IPs between switches (i configured VLAN1 and VLAN11 with IP). When client plugs computer to a port that belongs to VLAN11 will i be sure that client will get IP from the 192.168 range or there is possiblity that he gets IP from the management VLAN range?
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Mar 31, 2013
I was trying to upgrade IOS on my 3500XL series switch (24 port) Before doing this I connected my switch and deleted all the configs and flash. When I reconnect my switch this is the error message I am getting.
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Aug 6, 2011
I have just downloaded new software for sge2010p. I had tried to made an upgrade on some switches, but switches still boot with the old software.I have installed software 3.0.0.18 and boot 2.0.0.03. I have downloaded software 3.0.1 from cisco, put it on tftp and started an upgrade via switch web interface. I have checked that the active image is set to 1, and started the upgrade.Switch has downloaded soft from tftp, and reported that process has been finished without errors.After the restart switch have 3.0.0.18 software again. I have try to do this same on 4 different switches working in L3 and L2 mode - always with the same effect.Should I upgrade both images in the same time to get this work?
I have noticed, that the new firmware is located on image 2.
# show bootvar
Image Filename Version Date Status
----- --------- --------- --------------------- -----------
1 image-1 3.0.0.18 08-Nov-2009 16:21:37 Active
2 image-2 3.0.1.0 19-May-2011 13:05:53 Not active*
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So I try to set active image via console command:
# boot system image-2
and again...
a# show bootvar
Image Filename Version Date Status
----- --------- --------- --------------------- -----------
1 image-1 3.0.0.18 08-Nov-2009 16:21:37 Active*
2 image-2 3.0.1.0 19-May-2011 13:05:53 Not active
"*" designates that the image was selected for the next boot
Finally i have tried to set the active image to "2" using console menu: I have set it like this:
Active Image
============
Unit ID Active Image Active Image after Reset
======= ============ ========================
1 Image 1 Image 2
and save..
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Where is the right place to set active image for 2. Is the "active image" settings only sets the firmware image which switch uses or configuration files too?
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Jul 27, 2009
I m having 2500 series router. when i boot router automatically get into router(boot)> . how to solve?
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Oct 3, 2012
I have Cisco 2600 series Router which has only 32 MB flash memory. I tried to load IOS image in that but image size is 29 Mb in compressed form. The minimum i found is 5 MB in compressed form but it is missing so many commands. that in 32 MB flash, how can I load image which has almost all the commands.
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Sep 13, 2011
Is there a way to load a spare compact flash with a running-config, ASA IOS, & ASDM software via card reader? I need to load another flash card with all of the settings necessary for normal operation. This "spare" card will replace the flash that is currently in use. The reason for the replacement is capacity and because of changes made to the running-config. The "in-use" card is 256MB, the "spare" one is 512MB. Also, the new card will have a few changes made to the running-config, so it will, in essence, be a reload.
I have a card reader for the compact flash cards. If there is a way to load up this new card using the card reader, without monkeying with the firewall, I would prefer that. Like I said in the previous paragraph, this new flash card will replace the other one, once it's ready.
Hardware: ASA 5510
CF: 256MB (wanting to upgrade to the new 512MB card)
ASA IOS: 8.4
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May 2, 2012
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Dec 1, 2011
I have received a sup720-3B from Cisco with an internal 512MB flash(sup-bootdisk). I want to verify what IOS image is on the disk and do not have an spare 6509 chasis. Can I remove the 512 MB flash disk and insert it to my disk0: on my production 6509 with the sup32 that the 720 will repplace and view what is on the disk without corrupting?
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Mar 15, 2012
I have this 2801 in a critical environment. We had a brief power blip, and even though the router is on UPS, something happened. Anyway, after working with TAC, they determined the flash card had gone corrupt. Lucky for me I had a spare 2801 in my office, I grabbed that flash card and plugged it in and we're back up and going.
TAC sent me a new flash card. No matter what I do, I cannot get IOS to load on this thing! I am stuck in rommon. Here's what I've tried:
tftpdnld in rommon, times out. using another 2801 as a tftp-server. doesn't complete. using xmodem. ugh. never seems to get started. booting the router with a known good flash card, so I can get to ena, and "copy tftp flash".
have used tftpd32, Solar Winds TFTP server, What's Up Gold TFTP server, and open source tftp from sourceforge. With the tftp32, it always gets to exactly 73% download and then times out (it says, I have a feeling it's noty really a timeout). I have tried having the router and tftp server the only devices on a switch, i have tried the router plugged directly into the tftp server with a cross connect cable. No happiness. The open source tftp server reported (and I have to paraphrase, I am not near the router) "client does not support block number recount" or something like that. The client being the 2801.
The iOS file is about 45M. Someone asked me if the flash card was formatted...would that matter? would the tftp even start if it wasn't?
OK, I've gone on long enough. TAC is dispatching a new card AND 2801!
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