Hello Netpros.
Whilst attempting to perform a standard enable password recovery on an 803 router, I discovered that a ROMMON password had been set. This had the significant disadvantage in that I could not set the config register to bypass the configuration on startup using the set command.
I've browsed Google and this site and there seems to be some reference to a cookie and/or priv command that may assist with resetting a ROMMON password but this particular router does not seem to understand either of these commands whilst in disable mode.
Excerpt follows:
TinyROM version 1.0(2)
Mon Nov 02 17:14:21 1998
Copyright (c) 1998 by cisco Systems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
POST ......... OK. 8MB DRAM, 8MB Flash.
Booting up ..
auto-boot: failed, "user abort"
boot> set
set baud =9600
set data-bits =8
set parity =none
set stop-bits =1
set console-flags =0
set mac-address =0050.7377.4CCA
set unit-ip =0.0.0.0
set serv-ip =0.0.0.0
set netmask =0.0.0.0
set gate-ip =0.0.0.0
set pkt-timeout =8
set tftp-timeout =16
set boot-action =flash
set file-name ="c800-g3-mw.120-1.XB1"
set watchdog =off
set prompt ="boot"
set ios-conf =0x2102
boot> set ios-conf = 0x142
ios-conf: failed, "permission denied"
boot> en
password:
enable: failed, "permission denied"
boot> en
password:
enable: failed, "permission denied"
boot> cookie
cookie: failed, "command not found"
boot> priv
priv: failed, "command not found"
Hope one of you guys can help.
Adrian
