Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1434)

Boot for the Fibre Channel Protocol User Manual P010096-01A Rev. A
4. Emulex BIOS Utility
Configure Adapter Parameters
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To reset parameters to their factory default settings:
1. On the main configuration menu (Figure 4-2) select Reset Adapter Defaults. A
screen is displayed that asks if you want to reset to the defaults.
Figure 4-20 BIOS Utility Screen
2. Press .
All settings revert to their factory default values.
Note: After exiting the FC BIOS configuration utility, the system will reboot
whether or not any changes were made.
Use Multi-Path Boot from SAN
Multi-boot BIOS is in compliance with the BIOS Boot Specification (BBS). The system
must have a Multi-boot system BIOS in order to take advantage of this feature.
Multi-boot BIOS allows you to select any boot disk in the system BIOS setup menu. The
boot disk can be an FC drive, a SCSI drive, an IDE drive, a USB device, or floppy drive.
The Emulex BIOS supplies the first eight drives to the system BIOS menu. The
Multi-boot BIOS can override the FC drive that is selected in the BIOS utility.
For example, the system has eight FC disks only. The boot disk has ALPA 02. However,
you can select ALPA 23 in the system BIOS setup menu. The boot device is the FC disk
with ALPA 23 instead of ALPA 02, as is set in the BIOS utility.
If your system supports Multi-boot BBS, the local boot disk (drive C) is the first entry in
Multi-boot on the system BIOS setup menu. The list of entries is determined by the list
of configured boot entries in the BIOS utility. For example:
Adapter 1: boot_entry0, boot_entry1
Adapter 2: boot_entry2, boot_entry3
The order of boot entries exported to Multi-boot (BBS) is:
boot_entry0, boot_entry1, boot_entry2, and boot_entry3.