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Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006
Setting Up the BIOS for the Windows XP Operating System
If you are installing the Windows XP operating system, you will need to change the
Installed O/S option to Windows.
To set up the BIOS:
1. Power on the workstation and press the F2 key at the Sun logo screen to enter the
BIOS Setup menu.
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Change the Installed O/S option to Windows.
4. Press the F10 key to save your changes and exit the BIOS.
Setting up the BIOS for a Linux Operating System or Solaris
10 Operating System
The default for the Installed O/S option is Others. If the default has not been
changed, you do not need to perform this setup for a Solaris or Linux operating
system.
If the BIOS Installed O/S option has been changed from the default, you will need to
set up the BIOS for Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 and
SUSE Linux Enterprise SLED 10) or the Solaris 10 Operating System.
To set up the BIOS:
1. Power on the workstation and press the F2 key at the Sun logo screen to enter the
BIOS Setup menu.
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Change the Installed O/S option to Others.
4. Press the F10 key to save your changes and exit the BIOS Setup Utility.
Enabling SATA RAID Support
The Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation can accommodate up to eight drives for the
following Windows XP SP2 32-bit and Windows XP 64-bit RAID array
configurations:
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Two drives with RAID 0 or 1
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Four drives or more with Spanning, Stripe-mirroring, and RAID5
