User Guide

• Option ROMs
o The Intel Rapid Boot BIOS will not execute Option ROMs. An important impact
due to this will be the lack of Video support.
o For devices like SCSI, NIC and RAID, the payload kernel (if support is added)
will execute the option ROMs.
• SMBIOS Tables
o The Intel Rapid Boot BIOS will not support SMBIOS Tables.
o Newer Kernels may flag an ACPI blacklist error if SMBIOS Type 0 is not
available. Give an “acpi=force” kernel boot parameter to override this check.
• BIOS messages in System Event Log
o The Intel Rapid Boot BIOS will not support logging BIOS messages in the
System Event Log.
• BIOS – BMC Communication
o The Intel Rapid Boot BIOS will not support BIOS – BMC communication.
o BMC is present only in DP platforms.
• Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT)
o The Intel Rapid Boot BIOS will not support the Intel AMT GUI on Intel Server
Boards S3000AH and S3000PT.
o Once Intel AMT is configured in the normal production BIOS, and the system
shifts to an Intel Rapid Boot BIOS, remote access using Intel AMT APIs will
continue to work.
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Rapid Boot Toolkit User Guide Ref# D96629-001