Fun one today. Got a brand new Force10 S60 out of the box and set to work on configuring it, saved my config, rebooted, and poof all my configuration disappeared!

Did the same things once more as I thought maybe I had forgotten to save, but no, all my changes vanished again. I brought out the manual just to make sure Force10 hadn’t changed the commands to save the running configuration on me, but no I was typing the correct things in.

Lucky for me I had a second S60 waiting to be configured so I unboxed that and ran through the same procedures. Once again my configurations disappeared on reboot.

Clearly I’m missing something so I hit Google and quickly find this blog post with the answer.

Force10 supports two reload types and the mode it ships in clears configurations on reboots. Simply typing reload-type normal-reload puts the switch into normal operation mode.

If you want the config clearing mode for a demo or something you can use reload-type jump-start.