User`s guide

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Tips and Features for Administrators
Boot Option Maintenance Menu
The EFI Boot Maintenance Manager allows the user to add boot options, delete boot
options, launch an EFI application, and set the auto boot time out value.
If there are no boot options in the system (and no integrated shell), the Boot Maintenance
Menu is presented. If boot options are available, then the set of available boot options is
displayed, and the user can select one or choose to go to the Boot Maintenance Menu.
If the time out period is not zero, then the system will auto boot the first boot selection after
the time out has expired. If the time out period is zero, then the EFI Boot Manager will wait
for the user to select an option.
Table 26 describes each menu item in the Boot Maintenance Menu.
Note:
You can use the → ← ↑↓ keys to scroll through the Boot Maintenance Menu.
Boot Option
Description
Boot from a File This option searches all the EFI System Partitions in the system.
For each partition it looks for an EFI directory. If the EFI directory is
found, it looks in each of the subdirectories below EFI.
In each of those subdirectories, it looks for the first file that is an execut-
able EFI Application.
Each of the EFI Applications that meet this criteria are automatically
added as a possible boot option. In addition, legacy boot options for A:
and C: are also added if those devices are present.
This option allows the user to launch an application without adding it as
a boot option.
The EFI Boot Manager will search the root directories and the
\EFI\TOOLS directories of all of the EFI System Partitions present in the
system for the specified EFI Application.
Add a Boot Option Allows the user to specify the name of the EFI Application to add as a
boot option.
The EFI Boot Manager searches the same partitions and directories as
described in Boot from a File, until is finds an EFI Application with the
specified name.
This menu also allows the user to provide either ASCII or UNICODE ar-
guments to the option that will be launched.
Delete Boot Op-
tions
Allows you to delete a specific boot option or all boot options. Highlight
the option you want to delete and enter <d>. Enter <y> to confirm.
Change Boot Order Allows you to control the relative order in which the EFI Boot Manager
attempts boot options. To change the boot order, highlight the boot op-
tion and enter <u> to move the item up one order, <d> to move the item
down one order. For help on the control key sequences you need for
this option, refer to the help menu.
Manage Boot Next
Setting
Allows you to select a boot option to use one time (the next boot opera-
tion).
Set Auto Boot Time-
out
Allows you to define the value in seconds that pass before the system
automatically boots without user intervention. Setting this value to zero
disables the timeout feature.