Ampro Corporation COM 830 - Manual (Page 82)

Chapter 4 BIOS Setup Description
76 Reference Manual COM 830
Boot Device Priority
Feature Options Description
Boot Priority Selection Device Based
Type Based
Select between device and type based boot priority
lists. The “Device Based” boot priority list allows
you to select from a list of currently detected devices
only. The “Type Based” boot priority list allows you
to select device types, even if a respective device is
not yet present. Moreover, the “Device Based” boot
priority list might change dynamically in cases when
devices are physically removed or added to the
system. The “Type Based” boot menu is static and
can only be changed by the user.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...
Boot Device
(Up to 12 boot devices
can be prioritized if
device based priority
list control is selected.
If “Type Based”
priority list control is
enabled only 8 boot
devices can be
prioritized.)
Disabled
Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave
Legacy Floppy
USB Harddisk
USB CDROM
USB Removable Dev.
Onboard LAN
External LAN
PCI Mass Storage
PCI SCSI Card
Any PCI BEV Device
Third Master
Third Slave
PCI RAID
This view is only available when in the default “Type
Based” mode.
When in “Device Based” mode you will only see the
devices that are currently connected to the system.
The default boot priority is Removables 1st, ATAPI
CDROM 2nd, Hard Disk 3rd, BEV 4th (BEV = Boot
Entry Vector, e.g. Network or SCSI Option-ROMs).