I was trying to do a password recovery on a 7201 router, IOS=12.2(33)SRC3, and now it boots to a prompt as show in the title. I ran into this a long time ago, but can't remember what the cause/fix was.
If the config register indicates 0x2102, then verify is pointing to the correct location for the IOS.
HTH,
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Edison.
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