
View Boot Settings
To view the
Boot Settings
screen, perform the following steps:
Steps
1. Turn on, or restart your system.
2. Press F2 immediately after you see the following message:
F2 = System Setup
NOTE:
If your operating system begins to load before you press F2, wait for the system to finish booting, and then
restart your system and try again.
3. On the
System Setup Main Menu
screen, click
System BIOS
.
4. On the
System BIOS
screen, click
Boot Settings
.
Boot Settings details
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The
Boot Settings
screen details are explained as follows:
Option
Description
Boot Mode
Allows you to configure the Boot Sequence and Enable or Disable the individual boot options. The available options
are
BIOS
and
UEFI
. The option is set to
UEFI
by default.
Boot Sequence
Retry
Enables or disables the
Boot Sequence Retry
feature. If the last attempt to boot has failed, the system
immediately performs a cold reset or retries to boot after 30 seconds time-out period base on the setting of
Reset
or
Enabled
. This option is set to
Enabled
by default.
Hard-Disk Failover
Specifies the drive that is booted in the event of a drive failure. The devices are selected in the
Hard-Disk Drive
Sequence
on the
Boot Option Setting
menu. When this option is set to
Disabled
, only the first drive in the list
is attempted to boot. When this option is set to
Enabled
, all drives are attempted to boot in the order selected in
the
Hard-Disk Drive Sequence
. This option is not enabled for
UEFI Boot Mode
. This option is set to
Disabled
by default.
Generic USB Boot
Enables or disables the USB boot option. This option is set to
Disabled
by default.
Hard-disk Drive
Placeholder
Enables or disables the Hard-disk Drive Placeholder option. This option is set to
disabled
by default.
UEFI Boot Settings
The
UEFI Boot Settings
screen enables you to specify the UEFI boot order.
About this task
Option
Description
UEFI Boot
Sequence
Enables you to change the
UEFI
boot device order.
Boot Options
Enable/Disable
Enables you to enable or disable the
UEFI
boot devices.
Network Settings
You can use the
Network Settings
screen to modify UEFI PXE, iSCSI, and HTTP boot settings. The network settings option is available
only in the UEFI mode.
NOTE:
The BIOS does not control network settings in the BIOS mode. For the BIOS boot mode, the optional Boot ROM
of the network controllers handles the network settings.
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