Gateway ALR 9250R, User Manual

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92 Gateway ALR 9250R User’s Guide
Boot menu
The boot menu contains seven fields that allow you to control the boot
process. Three of these fields open submenus. The table below lists the
fields and the options for each.
Baud Rate 9600
19.2k
38.4k
115.2k When console redirection is enabled, this field
selects the baud rate.
When the Emergency Management Port
(EMP) shares the COM port as console redi-
rection, the baud rate must be set to 19.2k to
match the EMP baud rate, unless you use the
autobaud feature.
Flow Control No flow control
CTS/RTS
XON/XOFF
CTS/RTS + CD
None
disallows flow control.
CTS/RTS
is hardware flow control.
XON/XOFF
is software flow control.
CTS/RTS +CD
is hardware plus carrier-detect
flow control.
Boot Menu Fields
Field Options Description
Floppy Check Disabled
Enabled
If
Enabled
, system verifies the diskette type
on boot.
Disabled
results in a faster boot.
Multi-boot Support Disabled
Enabled This option should remain enabled unless you
install more than eight hard drives in the sys-
tem.
Boot Device Priority N/A Enters submenu.
Hard Drive N/A Enters submenu.
Removable Devices N/A Enters submenu.
Maximum Number of
I2O Drives 1
4 Selects the maximum number of I
2
O drives
assigned a DOS drive letter.
Message Timeout
Multiplier 1, 2, 8, 10, 50,
100, 1000 All timeout values are multiplied by this num-
ber.
Console Redirection Submenu Fields (Continued)
Field Options Description
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