I have a 2811 that crashes when trying to load the IOS in memory. I can see it decompressing the image but its not able to load it. I have a new chassis that I want to use but I need to get the config out of the bad chassis. How can I do this? Can I use the rommon? If not do I have other options? Can I physically move the NVRAM chip from bad to good chassis?
Your best bet is to go into rommon, initialize flash (if it isn't already) and see if you can copy the startup-config to flash. Let us know how it goes.
Sorry "flash_init" is not available neither is "more". Right now I am going to try to load a small IOS in zDRAM and hope I can get the router to boot from that. "Regular" IOS is a CCME voice version.
dir only works like this "dir flash:" which is nice but I would need to see the nvram not the flash. Still trying to boot an IP base OS from DRAM to see if I can they get access to nvram.
Looks like I am SOL. The router will not boot any IOS from any device flash or DRAM. At one point I saw a file called AUTOSAVE on the flash but it dissapeard before I had a chance to display it. Could that have been the config I was lookig for? Where did it go?
Anyway, I find it hard to believe that there is no other way to access the NVRAM other than via the IOS but for now I must give up and rebuild the router config from scratch.
Sorry but if it was that simple I would have my config already. The config is not on the CF card. It is in the NVRAM which is built into the motherboard. I have not found any technique that will copy data out of the NVRAM on the motherboard without booting an IOS and my router will not boot any IOS at this time.
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