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Cisco UCS C460 Server Installation and Service Guide
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Appendix C RAID Controller Considerations
How to Disable Quiet Boot For CIMC Firmware Earlier Than Release 1.2(1)
How to Disable Quiet Boot For CIMC Firmware Earlier Than
Release 1.2(1)
For CIMC firmware and BIOS release 1.2(1) and later, Quiet Boot has been removed. If you are running
CIMC firmware and BIOS earlier than release 1.2(1), you can use the following procedure to disable
Quiet Boot.
To disable quiet boot, so that controller information and the prompts for the option ROM-based LSI
utilities are displayed during bootup, follow these steps:
Step 1 Boot the server and watch for the F2 prompt.
Step 2 Press F2 when prompted to enter the BIOS Setup utility.
Step 3 On the Main page of the BIOS Setup utility, set Quiet Boot to Disabled.
This allows non-default messages, prompts, and POST messages to display during bootup instead of the
Cisco logo screen.
Step 4 Press F10 to save your changes, and to exit the utility.
How To Launch an Option ROM-Based Controller Utility
To alter the RAID configurations on your hard drives, you can use your host-based utilities that you
install on top of your host OS, or you can use the LSI option ROM-based utilities that are installed on
the server.
When you boot the server and you have quiet boot disabled, information about your controller is
displayed. The prompts for the key combination to launch the option ROM-based utilities for your
controller are also displayed.
To launch an option ROM-based controller utility, follow these steps:
Step 1 Watch for the prompt for your controller during verbose boot:
Step 2 Press Ctrl + H for the LSI controller utility.
For More Information
The LSI utilities have help documentation for more information about using the utilities.
For basic information on RAID and how to use the LSI utilities, see the documentation at LSI.com:
• LSI MegaRAID SAS Software User’s Guide (for LSI MegaRAID)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/3rd-party/lsi/mrsas/userguide/LSI_MR_SAS_SW_UG.pdf