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QSSC-S4R Server System Product Guide Using the BIOS and utilities
Version 1.0
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Floppy Order Set the order of the legacy devices in this
group.
This field appears when one or
more floppy drives are in the
system.
Network Device Order Set the order of the legacy devices in this
group.
This field appears when 1 or more
of these devices are available in
the system.
BEV Device Order Set the order of the legacy devices in
this group.
This field appears when 1 or
more of these devices are
available in the system.
A
dd New Boot Option
A
dd a new EFI boot option to the boot order. This option is only displayed if an
EFI bootable device is available to
the system, i.e., an USB drive.
Delete Boot Option Remove an EFI boot option from the boot
order.
If the EFI shell is deleted, it is
restored on the next system
reboot. It cannot be permanently
deleted.
EFI Optimized Boot Enabled
Disabled
If enabled, the BIOS only loads modules
required for booting EFI- aware Operating
Systems.
This field is grayed out when [SW
RAID] SATA Mode is Enabled.
SW RAID can only be used in
Legacy Boot mode.
Use Legacy Video for
EFI OS
Enabled
Disabled
If enabled, the BIOS use the legacy video
ROM instead of the EFI video ROM.
This field appears only when EFI
Optimized Boot is enabled.
Boot Option Retry Enabled
Disabled
If enabled, this continually retries non- EFI-
based boot options without waiting for user
input.
USB Boot Priority Enabled
Disabled
If enabled, newly discovered USB devices
are moved to the top of their boot device
category.
If disabled, newly discovered USB devices
are moved to the bottom of their boot device
category.
This option enables or disables
the “
USB Reorde r ” functionality. Fo
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more information.
If all types of bootable devices are installed in the system, then the default boot order is as follows:
 CD/DVD-ROM
 Floppy Disk Drive
 Hard Disk Drive
 PXE Network Device
 BEV (Boot Entry Vector) Device
 EFI Shell and EFI Boot paths
To force the system to boot to EFI Shell, add the line “#FORCE_EFI_BOOT” to the beginning of the file
startup.nsh.