{"id":2901,"date":"2020-05-19T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2020-05-19T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:31:55","slug":"recover-missing-ios-on-cisco-catalyst-2950-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=2901","title":{"rendered":"Recover Missing IOS on Cisco Catalyst 2950 Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Caution!<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This takes about 2 hours to perform.\u00a0 Proceed only if necessary!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>minicom connection to the console port<\/li>\n<li>copy of the IOS software\n<ul>\n<li>c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA14.bin<\/li>\n<li>copy the file to the \/root folder on the minicom\u00a0 server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Procedure<\/h2>\n<h3>Switch<\/h3>\n<pre>switch: flash_init\r\nswitch: load_helper\r\nswitch: dir flash:\r\ncopy xmodem: flash:c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA14.bin<\/pre>\n<h3>Minicom host<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&lt;Ctrl&gt;+&lt;A&gt; then &lt;S&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the file name and press &lt;Space&gt; then &lt;Enter&gt;<\/li>\n<li>After a few moments, you&#8217;ll see the file transfer begin.\n<ul>\n<li>If the transfer is successful, you&#8217;ll return to the switch: prompt<\/li>\n<li>If not, repeat the process. \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Switch<\/h3>\n<pre>boot flash:flash:c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA14.bin<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caution! This takes about 2 hours to perform.\u00a0 Proceed only if necessary! Requirements minicom connection to the console port copy of the IOS software c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA14.bin copy the file to the \/root folder on the minicom\u00a0 server. Procedure Switch switch: flash_init switch: load_helper switch: dir flash: copy xmodem: flash:c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA14.bin Minicom host &lt;Ctrl&gt;+&lt;A&gt; then &lt;S&gt; Scroll down ..<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=2901\" title=\"read more...\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icnd1-ccent","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}