4700 wont keep configurations

[bruce.cowan]

I have a 4700 that will not keep the configuration. I am always greet with the would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]:

The following is from the prompt.

System Bootstrap, Version 5.3(16) [richardd 16], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Copyright (c) 1996 by cisco Systems, Inc.

C4500 processor with 32768 Kbytes of main memory

program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x2d970c

Self decompressing the image : ########################## [OK]

program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x55b288

Self decompressing the image : ################################################# #### [OK]

Restricted Rights Legend

Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is

subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph

(c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted

Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph

(c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer

Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.

cisco Systems, Inc.

170 West Tasman Drive

San Jose, California 95134-1706

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) 4500 Software (C4500-I-M), Version 12.2(16), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)

Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Thu 06-Mar-03 20:46 by pwade

Image text-base: 0x60008948, data-base: 0x60A08000

cisco 4500 (R4K) processor (revision E) with 32768K/16384K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID 11651906

R4700 CPU at 100Mhz, Implementation 33, Rev 1.0

G.703/E1 software, Version 1.0.

Bridging software.

X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

6 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

1 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

128K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

8192K bytes of processor board System flash partition 1 (Read/Write)

4096K bytes of processor board System flash partition 2 (Read/Write)

4096K bytes of processor board System flash partition 3 (Read/Write)

4096K bytes of processor board Boot flash (Read/Write)

--- System Configuration Dialog ---

Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]

I believe my friend had to recover the passwords b4 he sent them to me. He doesn't remember if he had to or not though. Any light that could be shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

Bruce

[ahmednaas]

Can you check your config register value? It is probably set to the wrong value.

Post a "show version".

[Richard Burts · Accepted solution]

Bruce

The most common correct explanation for the symptoms that you describe is that password recovery left the config-register at 0x2142. As Ahmed indicates the way to check this is from the output of show version. To correct it set the config-register to 0x2102.

HTH

Rick

[bruce.cowan]

I really appreciate the info and will check this out this evening. I will post and let you know if it worked.

[bruce.cowan]

The config-register was incorrect. I corrected that and now I can make changes and save them. Thank you.

[Richard Burts]

Bruce

Thanks for using the rating system to indicate that your problem was solved. (and thanks for the rating) It makes the forum much more useful when people can read about a problem and can know that they will read a solution that worked.

I encourage you to continue your participation in the forum.

HTH

Rick

[bruce.cowan]

No problem. I saw the rating system as i was looking for info and saw the checkmarks which made it a lot easier to identify which post may include an actual answer. Looking forward to learning more stuff.

B