5-30 ES45 Owner's Guide
Description
The crash command forces an operating system that has stopped responding to
crash so that you can capture a crash dump.
Syntax
crash
Press the Halt button or use the RMC halt in commandtoinvoketheSRMcon-
sole, then enter the crash command to restart the primary CPU and force a
crash dump to the selected device.
• See the OpenVMS Alpha System Dump Analyzer Utility Manual for infor-
mation on how to interpret OpenVMS crash dump files.
• See the Guide to Kernel Debugging for information on using the Tru64
UNIX Krash Utility.