07-20-2010 08:15 AM - edited 03-04-2019 09:07 AM
I recently bought a Cisco 2511 router to act as my access server for my home lab and it will not boot. After initially setting up my lab, everything worked fine. I configured the access server, saved the config, restarted it and now it is getting stuck on bootup. Below is what I am getting from the console before it locks up. In bold is the message that might be hinting at what could be wrong: "CONFIG_NEWER: Configurations from version 11.2 may not be correctly understood. Any ideas?
System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE
Copyright (c) 1986-1996 by cisco Systems
2500 processor with 14336 Kbytes of main memory
%SYS-4-CONFIG_NEWER: Configurations from version 11.2 may not be correctly under
stood.
F3: 4253260+56428+236904 at 0x3000060
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cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134-1706
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-I-L), Version 11.2(21), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 15-Dec-99 22:13 by ccai
Image text-base: 0x0302320C, data-base: 0x00001000
cisco 2511 (68030) processor (revision M) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 19600414, with hardware revision 00000000
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 2.0, NET2, BFE and GOSIP compliant.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
16 terminal line(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
07-20-2010 09:19 AM
Josiah
That message is from the boot loader. In my experience where I have seen similar messages many times 99.9 % of the time the router boots fine and the config is understood. I doubt that this message is related to your problem.
When you configured the router, did you by any chance configure under line console 0 the command no exec? (perhaps as an abbreviation of no exec-timeout) Configuring no exec would produce the symptoms that you are describing.
Can you access the 2511 via the aux port? Depending on how you configured the router access through the aux port may be possible and changes to the configuration might be done to restore functionality to the console port.
Another possibility would be to go through the password recovery procedure where you change the config-register to ignore startup config and reboot. If your problem is the result of some configuration error this might be a way to recover from it.
HTH
Rick
06-08-2013 11:25 AM
Spot on, thanks!
line con 0
no exec <-- no good
exec-timeout 0 0 <-- good
also, I wasn't able to access device via AUX port, had to use the password recovery.
06-08-2013 05:20 PM
I am glad that my suggestion pointed you toward the solution. I learned the hard way that no exec is not an abbreviation for no exec-timeout. And my experience is that most of the time password recovery is the way out of this problem.
I am glad that you got it worked out.
HTH
Rick
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