How To Disable Quiet Boot For Cimc Firmware Earlier Than Release 1.2(1; How To Launch Option Rom-Based Controller Utilities - Cisco UCS C210 Installation And Service Manual

Appendix
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 the controller information and the prompts for the option ROM-based LSI
utilities are displayed during bootup, follow these steps:
Boot the server and watch for the F2 prompt during bootup.
Step 1
Press F2 when prompted to enter the BIOS Setup utility.
Step 2
On the Main page of the BIOS Setup utility, set Quiet Boot to Disabled. This allows non-default
Step 3
messages, prompts, and POST messages to display during bootup instead of the Cisco logo screen.
Press F10 to save your changes and exit the utility.
Step 4

How To Launch Option ROM-Based Controller Utilities

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 quite boot disabled (see
Firmware Earlier Than Release 1.2(1), page
with the prompts for the key combination to launch the option ROM-based utilities for your controller.
Watch for the prompt for your controller during verbose boot:
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The prompt for LSI controller card utility is Ctrl-H.
How to Disable Quiet Boot for CIMC
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