Cisco Systems OL-6426-02 manual Debug Commands, Error Reporting

Appendix C ROM Monitor

Debug Commands

Follow these steps to run Xmodem:

Step 1 Move the image file to the local drive where Xmodem will execute.

Step 2 Enter the xmodem command.

Error Reporting

Because the ROM monitor console download uses the console to perform the data transfer, when an error occurs during a data transfer, error messages are only displayed on the console once the data transfer is terminated.

If you have changed the baud rate from the default rate, the error message is followed by a message telling you to restore the terminal to the baud rate specified in the configuration register.

Debug Commands

Most ROM monitor debugging commands are functional only when Cisco IOS software has crashed or is halted. If you enter a debugging command and Cisco IOS crash information is not available, you see the following error message:

"xxx: kernel context state is invalid, can not proceed."

The following are ROM monitor debugging commands:

•stack or k—Produces a stack trace; for example:

rommon 6> stack
Stack trace:
PC = 0x801111b0
Frame 00: FP = 0x80005ea8	PC = 0x801111b0
Frame 01: FP = 0x80005eb4	PC = 0x80113694
Frame 02: FP = 0x80005f74	PC = 0x8010eb44
Frame 03: FP = 0x80005f9c	PC = 0x80008118
Frame 04: FP = 0x80005fac	PC = 0x80008064
Frame 05: FP = 0x80005fc4	PC = 0xfff03d70

•context—Displays processor context; for example:

>context

xt of the		most recent exception
000000	R1	=	0x832552c4 R2		= 0xffffffffR3 = 0x00000000
000021	R5	=	0x839960a8	R6	= 0x00029220R7 = 0xffffffff
9c0000	R9	=	0xffffffff	R22 =		0xffffffff R23 =	0xffffffff
000e881 R13			= 0xffffffff R14			= 0xffffffff R15	= 0xffffffff

fffffff R25 = 0xffffffff R30 = 0xffffffff IVPR = 0xffffffff fffffff R25 = 0xffffffff R26 = 0xffffffff R27 = 0xffffffff fffffff R29 = 0xffffffff R30 = 0xffffffff R31 = 0xffffffff 888002 LR = 0x800e3638 CTR = 0x8003af88 XER = 0xffffffff fffffff TBL = 0xffffffff DEAR = 0xffffffff DBCR2 = Oxffffffff fffffff DBCR0 = 0xffffffff DBCR1 = 0xffffffff DBCR2 = 0xffffffff ffffffff IAC2 = 0xffffffff DAC1 = 0xffffffff MCSRR1 = 0xffffffff 03af88 MSR = 0x00029220

•frame—Displays an individual stack frame.

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