HowTo rebuild

[emmanuel.chanson]

I have made a mistake when trying to reset the 6850, I have deleted through GUI all files of the switch
and now I am getting only Miniboot prompt option.

Do you know how to recover the factory configuration from this switch?

Below all files I have for the moment.
I have another 6850 where I can retrieve some file if needed but in which way to do it?

/
working/
boot.cfg
certified/
boot.cfg
swlog1.log
swlog2.log
boot.params
boot.params.corrupted

Emmanuel

[benny]

Well,

If you still have Images in the certified or working directory you can still boot from those. (If you really deleted all images from both directories, you did a complete job there ...)

Post the output of the following command:

[Miniboot]-> ls "working"
[Miniboot]-> ls "certified"

In case that one of them is not empty you can ask the switch to boot from it even though it would usually choose the certified directory.

[Miniboot]-> setNextRunningVersion 1 (To boot from certified - thats probably not what you want)
[Miniboot]-> setNextRunningVersion 2 (To boot from the working directory)

If both are empty you can spare posting the empty output and just go on with the recovery from those situations which was already described here: viewtopic.php?f=86&t=4436

-benny

[eizensp]

You have also one much faster (but not official) solution:
Open the switch (powered off!!!).
Remove compactflash card. It must be 64MB Sandisk CF card.
Connect it to PC with CF reader and copy image files you need into correct directory. Flash is formatted FAT32, so you can do what you need on Windows XP PC.
Install flash again and boot switch. You are back to life in 5 minutes. You can allso make backup of the flash to HDD.
It's very convinient, if you are ready to open the box...
Regards,
Eizens

[benny]

You just lost your warranty - great tip!

-benny