press the braek key on your terminal after power on and see if rommon shows up..
Larry Letterman Network Engineer Cisco Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean-Marc Simard To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 7:50 PM Subject: Help: Main Diagnostic Menu on 2501 router??? [7:64427] I just bought a 2501 router through Ebay for my CCIP/CCNP study and it's not supposed to have an IOS on it. When I power it up, instead of getting the rommon> prompt, I get the Main Diagnostic Menu as shown below. If I execute the diag tests offered all the tests pass, but I just can't get past this menu. Can someone, please, tell me what is wrong with it or how I can work around it? Thanks a lot JM (I had some problems with my mailer, so sorry if it gets posted twice) ------- (output at power up)---------- cisco Systems Diagnostic Monitor Testing boot state Exiting boot state Testing Main Memory from 0h to E000h. data equals address Testing Main Memory from 0h to E000h. checkerboard Testing Main Memory from 0h to E000h. inverse checkerboard Clearing bss Enabling interrupts Exiting init Diagnostic Monitor for CANCUN, Version 1.7.4(4) Compiled by haidung on Wed 19-Nov-97 14:26 Main Diagnostic Menu a: alter diag flags b: basic utilities c: do all diags in this menu d: do group of diags in this menu e: bus error test f: image checksum test g: timer interrupt test h: size memory i: main memory test j: main memory parity test k: shared memory test l: shared memory parity test m: flash memory test n: nvram test o: aux port test p: serial cookie test q: serial interface test s: ethernet (Am79C90-LANCE) test FLAGS: Continuous OFF Stop on error OFF Ext. loopback ON Abbr. test OFF enter Main Diagnostic Menu item > ------- Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=64446&t=64427 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]