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4 boot options, 1 supported boot devices, 2 selecting the boot device – Artesyn ATCA-7365 Installation and Use (May 2014) User Manual

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4.4

Boot Options

This section describes which boot devices are supported by the BIOS and how to select the
boot device.

4.4.1

Supported Boot Devices

The BIOS supports booting from the following devices/sources:

USB devices, such as floppy, CD ROM and hard disk

Solid State Disk connected to the SATA interface. (available only when SSD SATA is
assembled)

Storage devices connected to the SAS controller (by RTM)

Network (Front Panel Ethernet, Base Ethernet and Ethernet on RTM)

Storage devices connected to the Fiber Channel module (by RTM)

iSCSI block devices connected to Base or Fabric Ethernet

4.4.2

Selecting The Boot Device

There are two possibilities to determine the device from which BIOS attempts to boot:

By setup to select a permanent order of boot devices

By boot selection menu to select any device for the next boot-up procedure only