User`s guide

Boot Setup9.5

Select the Boot tab from the setup menu to enter the Boot setup screen. In the upper part of the screen the Boot setup allows you to prioritize

the available boot devices. The lower part of this setup screen shows options related to the BIOS boot.

Boot Device Priority9.5.1

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

Local BEV ROM

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).