[c-nsp] Dead 1721 router ... not even rommon

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Try removing the flash simm from the router and rebooting it.
It should go into rommon without doing a control-break.  Then you can
set the config register back to sane values with confreg 0x2142
(which makes it boot ignoring the nvram config)  You may have to
type blind.

It does sound to me like a serial port baud or parity or stopbit
setting mismatch.

make sure also your sending a break, see:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/61.html

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Crooks, Samuel
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 3:15 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Dead 1721 router ... not even rommon
>
>
> My coworker killed one of our 1721 routers.  He did something in the
> following processing, and now when the router boots, when you press the
> enter key, you get a triangle with a 2 superscript, instead of
> some sort
> of prompt.
>
> I had worked out a config file, and he was supposed to boot the router,
> plug into console and ethernet, configure the fa0 int for dhcp, then
> tftp the config to startup-config, and tftp a new IOS image to flash: .
> he said he did this, although, I am thinking he maybe tftp'd the IOS
> image to startup-config or something weird.
>
>
> I have tried using CTRL-BREAK during boot to get to rommon, but don't
> seem to get anywhere.  I also tried several different baud rate
> settings, as it looks like a serial setting mismatch, to no avail.  I
> verified my terminal settings were correct.
>
>
> I get NO boot messages at all during the bootup process.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Sam Crooks
>
>
>
>
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