I'm not any good at this, but you can't get to Diagnostic Console or anything like that? What are your LED lights doing? If it won't boot, I guess these are non-valid questions. Dale ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upgrading switch IOS problem.(permission denied) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:50:14 -0700 I've decided to bite the bullet and copy the new image to the switch using "copy tftp flash:". After the image is copied over the the switch, I set it as a bootable image through this command "boot system c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120_5_2-XU.bin". Upon restarting/reloading the switch, below is the error message I am getting. Help help help! C2900XL Boot Loader (C2900-HBOOT-M) Version 11.2(8)SA5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Compiled Tue 23-Mar-99 11:54 by rheaton starting... Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:d0:58:f0:aa:80 Xmodem file system is available. Initializing Flash... flashfs[0]: 177 files, 2 directories flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 3612672 flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 3174400 flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 438272 flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 0 seconds. ...done Initializing Flash. Boot Sector Filesystem (bs:) installed, fsid: 3 Parameter Block Filesystem (pb:) installed, fsid: 4 Loading "c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120_5_2-XU.bin"...c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120_5_2-XU.bin: per mission denied Error loading "c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120_5_2-XU.bin" Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process. Boot process failed... The system is unable to boot automatically. The BOOT environment variable needs to be set to a bootable image. ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
