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Using the ROM Monitor
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How to Use the ROM Monitor—Typical Tasks
DETAILED STEPS
Examples
This section provides the following examples:
•
Sample Output for the ? or help ROM Monitor Command, page 9
•
Sample Output for the xmodem -? ROM Monitor Command, page 10
Sample Output for the ? or help ROM Monitor Command
rommon 1 >
?
alias set and display aliases command
boot boot up an external process
break set/show/clear the breakpoint
confreg configuration register utility
cont continue executing a downloaded image
context display the context of a loaded image
cookie display contents of cookie PROM in hex
dev list the device table
dir list files in file system
dis display instruction stream
dnld serial download a program module
frame print out a selected stack frame
help monitor builtin command help
history monitor command history
iomemset set IO memory percent
meminfo main memory information
repeat repeat a monitor command
reset system reset
rommon-pref select ROMMON
set display the monitor variables
showmon display currently selected ROM monitor
stack produce a stack trace
sync write monitor environment to NVRAM
sysret print out info from last system return
tftpdnld tftp image download
unalias unset an alias
unset unset a monitor variable
Command or Action
Purpose
Step 1
?
or
help
Example:
rommon 1 > ?
Example:
rommon 1 > help
Displays a summary of all available ROM monitor
commands.
Step 2
command
-?
Example:
rommon 16 > display -?
Displays syntax information for a ROM monitor command.