Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Information Guide
You see this as a message :
The rescue environment will now attempt to find your Linux installation and mount it under
the directory /mnt/sysimage. You can then make any changes required to your system. If
you want to proceed with this step select Continue. You can also choose to mount your file
systems read-only instead of read-write by choosing 'Read-only'. If for some reason this
process fails you can select Skip and this step skipped and you go directly to a command
shell.
The rescue environment will now attempt to find your Linux installation and mount it under
the directory /mnt/sysimage. You can then make any changes required to your system. If
you want to proceed with this step select Continue. You can also choose to mount your file
systems read-only instead of read-write by choosing 'Read-only'. If for some reason this
process fails you can select Skip and this step skipped and you go directly to a command
shell.
3.
Choose Continue in this screen.
4.
Once an existing installation is found, it is mounted to /mnt/sysimage location and you are
guided to command prompt.
guided to command prompt.
5.
Step 5. Change root to the PI install location with the help of command: # chroot /mnt/sysimag.
Step 6. Move /storeddata/rootpatchpw with the help of command: #mv
/storeddata/rootpatchpw /root/.
/storeddata/rootpatchpw /root/.
Step 7. Now enter exit and hit Enter key.
Step 8. Enter reboot and boot into PI.
Step 9. Once the virtual machine is rebooted in the vSphere client, click in CD (Compact Disk)
icon and select Disconnect ISO image.
icon and select Disconnect ISO image.
Step 10. After the completion of the boot, PI services are up. Log in to PI admin CLI and set the
new root password with the use of root_enable command.
new root password with the use of root_enable command.
Note: If the PI version is 3.1.x releases use shell command instead root_enable to set the
password.
password.