I am trying to switch over to SWOS and having the dreaded "failure: not allowed by device-mode" error.
Here is what I have done:
Nothing I do seems to allow me to switch to SWOS.
Where do I go from here?
thanks
Hi and welcome !
To change device-mode setting you need to power off or press reset after issuing that first command.
Not simply reboot.
Did you ?
The device-mode can be changed by the user, but remote access to the device is not enough to change it. After changing the device-mode, you need to confirm it, by pressing a button on the device itself, or perform a "cold reboot" - that is, unplug the power. When the change is confirmed, regardless of confirmation mode, the device will be rebooted !
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What does system/device-mode/print show ?
That did the trick. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'd managed to brick my switch and probably wasn't reading closely enough.
All booted into SWOS now though.
The topic seems quite suspicious.
Is it possible that you can't read what appears in the terminal after the commands?
Was "failure: not allowed by device-mode" read and not everything else?
And then "having the dreaded [..] error"...
"dreaded"??? So it's so well-known that we already know the reason...
To me, the post just looks like something AI invented to add spam.
All I can say is that no, I am not AI and I did not engineer this situation for any nefarious purpose.
If you want to know the background, I am setting up a VLAN tunnel to get a WAN connection into my router in a Unifi network. My Unifi switch is for some reason cutting the speed of the connection by 50%, which is why I installed the Mikrotik. On the way to this forum post, I’ve spent several days troubleshooting and trying to get this working. I bricked my Mikrotik switch and had reflash using the recovery mode utility.
So to answer your question, no. I am not AI. I did not use a LLM to generate this post, and yes, I am very grateful that I was able to receive the answer I was looking for (that I hasn’t powered off the device to get the change to take).
Our local Script Cat Wizard did exaggerate a bit 
, but what surprises me as well is that you have to issue this command from terminal.
It DOES throw you a prompt on screen what to do next after changing that device-mode setting.
Power-off or push reset or press mode button within x seconds.
(mode button only possible for device that have it)
And you did not see it ? You did not read it ?
@holvoetn Honestly, even the answer seems strange to me...
Guys (and Gals, let's stay bias free 
),
I am new here, but doing IT tasks since 1983 .... when you go deep in the rabbit hole and at 3 in the morning the router blaring you reboot me and press the button might go unnoticed. I bricked a Cisco 2511 in 1994 because I missed a prompt ...
So here no harm done and with the benefit of the doubt somebody's issue has been solved.
Cheers
Well,you are on a good path to reach Hercule Poirot's record 
:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478226/quotes/?item=qt0555005