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VDX 6740 Boot Prom Password

VDX 6740 Boot Prom Password

Ozkan
New Contributor

Hi,

Can anybody help me about boot prom password recovery? One of our switches has an error : “Error: Network OS is not ready. Please login later”. I dediced to re-install firmware but when I tried to enter command shell on u-boot, asks me password. We couldnt find the it. How to reset boot prom password?

 

Thanks,

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Truyen_Phan
Extreme Employee

Also, “Error: Network OS is not ready. Please login later” means that the configuration DB is corrupted possibly due to ungraceful shutdown, so NOS didn’t fully initialized. 

 

Once the boot prom password is recovered, you can do the following to default the config which will allow the OS to fully initialize. 

 

  1. Power cycle the switch and get into Boot PROM (Hit ESC during AutoBoot)
  2. Type at the prompt to open the command shell
  3. Enter setenv bootargs 'root=/dev/sda$prt rootfstype=ext4 quiet S'
  4. Enter saveenv
  5. Enter reset
  6. Enter mount -vo remount,rw,noatime /
  7. Enter mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
  8. Enter /fabos/sbin/cfgcleanup to default the configuration on bootup 
  9. Enter bootenv bootargs 'root=/dev/sda$prt rootfstype=ext4 quiet'
  10. Enter "partman -r" to reboot

 

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Truyen_Phan
Extreme Employee

Hello,

Can you provide the boot recovery string that is given?

With that, we can provide the recovery string to allow you to reset the password. 

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