[c-nsp] ASR920 Break Into ROMMON

[Aaron]

Looks like you need to talk to TAC. The password recovery being disabled is
not your friend.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/routing/asr-920-boot-fail/td-p/3834996


On Thursday, December 3, 2020, Scott Miller <fordlove at gmail.com> wrote:

> The output didn't seem to format well, let's try it again:
>
> System Bootstrap, Version 15.5(3r)S2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
> Copyright (c) 2015 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Wed 01-Jul-15 03:53 by sdcunha
> Starting Initialization of FMAN0
> Loading ucode for FMAN0, size: 31424, ver: 106.04.14
> Silicon Rev Major:Minor [1:1]
> Initializing the pci..
> IOFPGA version[17082912]
> Boot ROM0
> Last reset cause: BootFromUpgradeRegFail
> UEA platform with 1572863 Kbytes of main memory
>
> PASSWORD RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED
>
> .....Break detected: (0x1)
> Do you want to reset the router to the factory default
> configuration and proceed [y/n] ?y
>
> Router rebooting with factory default configuration
>
> System Bootstrap, Version 15.5(3r)S2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
> Copyright (c) 2015 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Wed 01-Jul-15 03:53 by sdcunha
> Starting Initialization of FMAN0
> Loading ucode for FMAN0, size: 31424, ver: 106.04.14
> Silicon Rev Major:Minor [1:1]
> Initializing the pci..
> IOFPGA version[17082912]
> Boot ROM0
> Last reset cause: BootFromUpgradeRegFail
> UEA platform with 1572863 Kbytes of main memory
>
> PASSWORD RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED
>
> .....Resetting upgrade counter from failed upgrade
> Directory asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin not found
> Unable to locate asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin directory
> Unable to load asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin
> boot: error executing "boot
> bootflash:asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin"
> autoboot: boot failed, restarting...
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:32 PM Scott Miller <fordlove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a ASR-920-12SZ-IM, which I inadvertently entered the wrong boot
> > command in the config, saved the config and rebooted.  Now it's stuck in
> a
> > boot loop.  I've tried breaking the boot, it asks if I want to reset to
> > factory default, and I enter "y", it reboots but still tries to find that
> > same bad ios file I entered in the initial configuration which was
> supposed
> > to have been whipped when it went to factory default.  I can't for the
> life
> > of me figure out how to get into ROMMON on this box.  Each time I break
> the
> > boot, it just goes back to the same question, asking if I want to factory
> > default.
> >
> > Here's what it's doing:
> >
> >
> > System Bootstrap, Version 15.5(3r)S2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Technical
> > Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 2015 by cisco
> > Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 01-Jul-15 03:53 by sdcunha Starting
> > Initialization of FMAN0 Loading ucode for FMAN0, size: 31424, ver:
> > 106.04.14 Silicon Rev Major:Minor [1:1] Initializing the pci.. IOFPGA
> > version[17082912] Boot ROM0 Last reset cause: BootFromUpgradeRegFail UEA
> > platform with 1572863 Kbytes of main memory PASSWORD RECOVERY
> FUNCTIONALITY
> > IS DISABLED .....Break detected: (0x1) Do you want to reset the router to
> > the factory default configuration and proceed [y/n] ?y Router rebooting
> > with factory default configuration System Bootstrap, Version 15.5(3r)S2,
> > RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/
> techsupport
> > Copyright (c) 2015 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 01-Jul-15 03:53 by
> > sdcunha Starting Initialization of FMAN0 Loading ucode for FMAN0, size:
> > 31424, ver: 106.04.14 Silicon Rev Major:Minor [1:1] Initializing the
> pci..
> > IOFPGA version[17082912] Boot ROM0 Last reset cause:
> BootFromUpgradeRegFail
> > UEA platform with 1572863 Kbytes of main memory PASSWORD RECOVERY
> > FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED .....Resetting upgrade counter from failed
> > upgrade Directory asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin not found
> Unable
> > to locate asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin directory Unable to
> load
> > asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin boot: error executing "boot
> > bootflash:asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin" autoboot: boot
> failed,
> > restarting...
> >
> >  The boot file  bootflash:asr920-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin is
> > invalid and does not exist.  The correct file which is on the box
> > is  bootflash:asr920igp-universalk9_npe.16.06.05a.SPA.bin
> >
> > Anyone know how to break into ROMMON to blow out this config?  I've been
> > at it for a couple hours, nothing I've found googling seems to work.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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