Other Useful Rom Monitor Commands; Debugging Commands In The Rom Monitor; Configuration Register - Cisco 3700 Series Hardware Installation Manual

ROM Monitor Command Descriptions
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rommon 2>

Other Useful ROM Monitor Commands

reset or i—Resets and initializes the router, similar to power up.

Debugging Commands in the ROM Monitor

Most debugging commands are functional only when Cisco IOS software has crashed or failed to
initialize (boot). Debugging commands should normally be entered only under the direction of a Cisco
engineer. If you enter a debugging command and Cisco IOS crash information is not available, the
following error message appears:
"xxx: kernel context state is invalid, cannot proceed."
The following ROM monitor debugging commands provide information about software failures:
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Configuration Register

The configuration register resides in NVRAM. You can view or modify the configuration register from
either the ROM monitor or the operating system software.
For procedures used to change the configuration register from the operating system, and for information
about configuration register settings, see
To modify the configuration register from the ROM monitor, use one of these methods:
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stack or k—Produces a stack trace.
context—Displays processor context.
frame—Displays an individual stack frame.
sysret—Displays return information from the last booted system image. This information includes
the reason for terminating the image; a stack dump of up to eight frames; and, if an exception is
involved, the address where the exception occurred; for example:
rommon 8> sysret
System Return Info:
count: 19, reason: a SegV exception
pc:0x802b1040, error address: 0x802b1040
Stack Trace:
FP: 0x80908398, PC: 0x802b102c
FP: 0x809083b0, PC: 0x802b0b88
FP: 0x809083d8, PC: 0x8017039c
FP: 0x809083e8, PC: 0x8016f764
Enter the confreg command by itself for menu mode. See the
in Menu Mode" section below.
Enter the confreg command plus the new hexadecimal value of the configuration register. See the
next section, "Modifying the Configuration Register by Hexadecimal
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Appendix C, "Configuration Register."
"Modifying the Configuration Register
Appendix B Using the ROM Monitor
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