Cisco 4321 – Boot Loop

I had the opportunity to configure a new Cisco 4321 router the other day.

Opened the box and plugged in the power which by the way is via an external power supply that has a Mickey Mouse (C5) connector!

Waiting in excitement for the router to boot… After some time I realised the router wasn’t booting. The error was:

unable to open bootflash:xdsl/packages.conf (14)

My output from SecureCRT: