Technical product specification

Overview of BIOS Features

3.7 Boot Options

In the BIOS Setup program, the user can choose to boot from a hard drive, optical

drive, removable drive, or the network. The default setting is for the optical drive to

be the first boot device, the hard drive second, removable drive third, and the network

fourth.

3.7.1 Intel

Visual Boot Manager

Intel

Visual Boot Manager is a new module that has been added to Intel

Visual

BIOS. It provides the capability of selecting from a list of installed OS’s on any

attached HDD and booting to the selected OS during the POST process. It utilizes

flexible UEFI core BIOS to implement this feature. Intel Visual Boot Manager can be

toggled on and off via a configuration option in Intel Visual BIOS under the boot tab.

Once Intel Visual Boot Manager has been enabled, the system will always bring up

Intel Visual Boot Manager which will provide you with a selection of OS’s to boot to. An

additional feature is the countdown timer. The timer range is configurable in Intel

Visual BIOS and controls the behavior upon entering Intel Visual Boot Manager. If the

countdown timer is enabled, the timer will countdown by 1 second intervals from the

range specified by the option in Intel Visual BIOS. Once it reaches 0, and as long as

there is no mouse, touch, or keyboard activity, the first boot device will be

automatically selected and booted to. In a future BIOS update release, Intel Visual

Boot Manager will allow the ability to select an OS from the Intel Visual Boot Manager

menu that has not previously been installed on a HDD. It will enable the capability to

download an OS from the web and install it on a HDD if the Intel NUC is connected to

the internet. This will then allow you to boot to multiple OS’s from a HDD, ensuring a

more flexible platform capability. The ability to change the default first boot device will

also be added at a later time.

3.7.2 Network Boot

The network can be selected as a boot device. This selection allows booting from the

onboard LAN or a network add-in card with a remote boot ROM installed.

Pressing the <F12> key during POST automatically forces booting from the LAN. To

use this key during POST, the User Access Level in the BIOS Setup program's Security

menu must be set to Full.