RebusCom wrote:The reset to factory defaults via the long press during powerup did restore the ability to boot up. However, my concern is with recurrence. I don't suppose there is a way to perform a memory stress test.
You are making the assumption this has something to do with flash being corrupted.
Did you hook up a console cable BEFORE you factory defaulted it and look around?
Making changes to VLANs can cause the behavior you describe if there is a slight misconfiguration.
Or possibly the VLAN change you made is a bug, the only way to know this would be to LAB it.
To LAB it would require you to post up all the config TABs as it was before you made the change then show what changes you commited.
Also there were some changes to VLANs I "think" in v1.4.8rcX so if you were running anything older than the latest code then we do not know if the problem still persists.
Since the DEFAULT worked I highly doubt the flash was corrupted, a corrupted flash would not fully boot and would usually require at minimum a serial console firmware recovery or even a complete reflash with our specialized equipment.
So as I said I wish you would have used a serial console cable before defaulting and exported the config.