# Rebooting Your System

You can reboot your system as a whole or select a single slot in the system to be rebooted. You can reboot your system immediately or in a designated interval of time, and can configure the system to prompt you if the modules are in a state that could lead to a loss of configuration data or an NVS corruption.

If you reboot the system before it has completely written configuration updates to NVS, the system will start with the last saved configuration. If you reboot the system after it has written the configuration updates to NVS, but before it has applied those updates to actual configuration data, the configuration update process resumes immediately following the reboot and completes before any application accesses its configuration data.

reload

- Use to reload the software on the system immediately.
- Reloads the system software (.rel) file and the configuration (.cnf) file on the system.
- When you issue this command, the system prompts you for a confirmation before the procedure starts.
- If you specify the force keyword, the procedure will fail if the system is updating the boot prom. In this case, the system will display a message that indicates that the procedure cannot currently be performed and the cause. However, if the system is in a state that could lead to a loss of configuration data or an NVS corruption, such as during the synchronization of SRP modules, the system displays a message that describes the state, and asks you to confirm (enter y for yes, n for no) whether you want to proceed.
- If you do not specify the force keyword, the procedure will fail if the system is in a state that could lead to a loss of configuration data or an NVS corruption, and the system will display a message that explains why the procedure failed.
- Use the standby-srp keyword to reload the system software (.rel) file and the configuration (.cnf) file on the standby SRP module without having to look up its slot number to use with the reload slot command.
- When you issue this command, the system prompts you for a confirmation before the procedure starts.
- If you remove a standby SRP module without issuing the slot erase command to delete the configuration, the E Series router cannot guarantee that the SRP modules were synchronized. In this situation, you must do either of the following to reload the router:
- Issue the reload command with the force keyword.
- Issue the slot erase command followed by the reload command.
- Example
  host1#reload host1#reload force
- There is no no version.
- See reload.

reload

- Use to reload the software on the system at an absolute time.
- This command halts the system.
- Reloads the system software (.rel) file and the configuration (.cnf) file on the system.If the system is in a state that could lead to a loss of configuration data or an NVS corruption, it will delay the procedure for one minute. Each time the system delays the procedure, it adds a message to the os log that explains why the procedure was delayed. If the system cannot reload on its sixth attempt, the reboot procedure will fail, and the system will add an explanation to the os log.
- Example
  host1#reload at 10:10 May 5

  This command reloads the software 10 minutes after 10 on May 5th.

- There is no no version.
- See reload.

reload

- Use to reload the software on the system in a relative period of time.
- This command halts the system.
- Reloads the system software (.rel) file and the configuration (.cnf) file on the system.
- If the system is in a state that could lead to a loss of configuration data or an NVS corruption, it will delay the procedure for one minute. Each time the system delays the procedure, it adds a message to the os log that explains why the procedure was delayed. If the system cannot reload on its sixth attempt, the reboot procedure will fail, and the system will add an explanation to the os log.
- Example
  host1#reload in 00:10

  This command reloads the software in 10 minutes.

- There is no no version.
- See reload.

reload slot

- Use to reboot a selected slot on the router.
- Reloads the system software (.rel) file and the configuration (.cnf) file on the module in the selected slot.
- When you issue this command, the system prompts you for a confirmation before the procedure starts.
- If you specify the force keyword and the slot number of the primary SRP module, the procedure will fail if the system is updating the boot prom. In this case, the system will display a message that indicates that the procedure cannot currently be performed and the cause. However, if the system is in a state that could lead to a loss of configuration data or an NVS corruption, such as using the synchronization of SRP modules, it displays a message that describes the state, and asks you to confirm (enter yes or no) whether you want to proceed.
- If you do not specify the force keyword, the procedure will fail if the system is in a state that could lead to a loss of configuration data or an NVS corruption, and the system will display a message that explains why the procedure failed.
- Example
  host1#reload slot 3
- There is no no version.
- See reload slot.

## Rebooting When a Command Takes a Prolonged Time to Execute

Although some commands might take a relatively long time to execute, most do not. If the CLI displays no output other than “ Please wait...” for a prolonged period, you can press Ctrl+x to reset the system. Use Ctrl+x only as a last resort; if at all possible, wait until the command is completed, or attempt to connect to the system through a Telnet or SSH client through which you can use the reload command.

service ctrl-x-reboot

- Use to enable the Ctrl+x key combination to reset the system from any location.
- Issuing the Ctrl+x command has no effect if you are accessing the system through Telnet.
- This feature is disabled by default.
- Loading the factory default configuration does not override this feature.
- Example
  host1(config)#service ctrl-x-reboot
- Use the no version to disable this feature.
- See service ctrl-x-reboot.

## Configuration Caching

Configuration caching prevents the system from being partially configured with changes in the event of a reset. When a script or macro begins execution, the resulting configuration changes are automatically cached in system RAM rather than being committed to nonvolatile storage (NVS). When the script or macro completes execution, the cache is flushed as a background operation, saving the configuration changes to NVS.

If the SRP module resets during the script or macro execution, the system boots as though the script were never started because no NVS files have changed. If the SRP module resets during the flush operation, the system boots with factory defaults.

If you start another script or macro in the middle of an ongoing flush operation, the current flush is halted; now if the SRP module resets during the script, the system boots with factory defaults.

If you issue the reload command to manually reset the system, the system checks for an ongoing cache flush and warns you if a flush operation is discovered.