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Catalyst 2900 Series XL and Catalyst 3500 Series XL Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 9      Troubleshooting
Recovery Procedures
load_helper
boot
Step 5 Initialize the Flash file system:
switch: flash_init
Step 6 If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9600, it has been reset 
to that particular speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that 
of the switch console port.
Step 7 Load any helper files:
switch: load_helper
Step 8 Display the contents of Flash memory:
switch: dir flash:
The switch file system is displayed:
Directory of flash:
  2  -rwx      843947   Mar 01 1993 00:02:18 C2900XL-h-mz-112.8-SA
  4  drwx        3776   Mar 01 1993 01:23:24  html
 66  -rwx         130   Jan 01 1970 00:01:19  env_vars
 68  -rwx        1296   Mar 01 1993 06:55:51  config.text
1728000 bytes total (456704 bytes free)
Step 9 Rename the configuration file to config.text.old. 
This file contains the password definition. 
switch: rename flash:config.text flash:config.text.old