Problem with the boot on my cisco 2600

Your config register is pointing to the wrong location

This works for the 2500 series:

Boot you router while pressing CTRL and Break on the keyboard

at the prompt type o/r 0x2142 then return

              type i then return

              type n then return

              type enable then return

              type copy run start

              type configure terminal then return

              type config register 0x2102 then return

              type CTRL Z

              type copy run start

              type reload

If this does not work just log on to the cisco site and look up the config register value for the 2600 series and just subsistute the 0x2??? numbers

   If you have not programmed the router before reloading check that passwords are not set it is no good reloading the saved file if you do not know the password to access the router.

Good luck

Did you try to upgrade the flash?
>I took some flash from a 2500 I had and I got the same message.

The flash images from 2500 and 2600 are NOT compatible.

You need to download the correct IOS image for your router and copy it to flash. Easiest is with a TFTP server.
1. Get a tftp server (pumpkin at http://www.klever.net/kin/pumpkin.html) and install in on a PC
2. Get the appropriate flash image from another router or from Cisco and put the .bin file into your TFTP root directory.

3. from rommon 1 > tftpdnld
you should get an error message that says you need all these variables set, so use this example procedure to set them:
rommon 1 >IP_ADDRESS=123.45.67.8
rommon 2 >SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0
rommon 3 >DEFAULT_GATEWAY=123.45.67.1
rommon 4 >TFTP_SERVER=123.45.67.10
rommon 5 >FILE=c2600-i-mz-122.2-7.bin
rommon 6 >tftpdnld
Do you want to erase flash? Y
Continue? Y
Really? Y

Something like that, but it will be apparant with the first tftpdnld command.

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Have you tried to reboot?

I want to answer but this section is locked.  How are for the locking on my base?

I think you are to replace the kisco with a 7500 or moreso.  little router have no memory

I think you are to replace the kisco with a 7500 or moreso.  little router have no memory

OK, I put a new flash into the 2600 and I did a tftpdnld in rommon mode, and I do not see the magic number message anymore, But now I am getting a different message after the router decompresses the image.
here is the message:

Unexpected exception to CPU vector 1200, PC = 80323AC4
-Traceback= 80323AC4 80323C10 8025F354 80345F10 80347B84 802F5430 802F54E0 80250C44 80250EB8 802FF6CC


=== Flushing messages (00:00:02 UTC Mon Mar 1 1993) ===

Queued messages
*** System received a SegV exception ***
signal= 0xb, code= 0x1200, context= 0x8140cdc8
PC = 0x80323ac4, Vector = 0x1200, SP = 0x814a0328

I read on the cisco site that a new IOS should take care of the SegV , but it does not look like it helped any since I just placed a new IOS on it

Did you look carefully at the requirements for that particular image of the IOS? Do you have the required amount of FLASH and DRAM? Which exact image are you trying to load?

i have 8mb of flash and 24mb of ram. the ios im trying to install says i need 8mb and 20mb. so im good there.

dir flash:
         File size           Checksum   File name
   3925056 bytes (0x3be440)   0x2666    c2600-i-mz.120-5.T1.bin

thats is what is in my flash now. I have 8mb of flash and 24mb of RAM this IOS requires 8mb flash, 20mb RAM.

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