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4. To access the Startup Utility menu, press
2
within the first five seconds after
the Main menu message appears.
If you do not press
2
within five seconds, or if you press
1
, the operational
code continues to load. To restart the boot process to access the Startup
Utility menu, wait until the switch has completed the boot cycle to reload the
switch.
After you press
2
, the Startup Utility menu appears:
FASTPATH Startup -- Utility Menu
1 - Start FASTPATH Application
2 - Erase Current Configuration
3 - Erase Permanent Storage
4 - Select Boot Method
5 - Activate Backup Image
6 - Start Diagnostic Application
7 - Reboot
Q - Quit from FASTPATH Startup
For information about the options available from the menu, see “Startup
Utility functions” on page 45.
Next steps At the end of the boot process, the switch loads the saved configuration. When
the process has successfully completed, the
User:
login prompt appears. To enter
User EXEC mode, enter
admin
, which is the default user, and press Enter at the
password prompt. The
admin
user does not have a password by default. The User
EXEC mode offers a limited set of commands. To enter Privileged EXEC mode,
enter the
enable
command from User EXEC mode. At the password prompt,
press Enter. By default, no enable password is configured.
From Privileged EXEC mode, you can execute all
show
commands to view
information about the switch configuration. You can also enter the
configuration
command to enter Global Configuration mode to configure a
variety of switch features.
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