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PXE
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BIOS Setup
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Local Floppy/Primary Removable Media
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Local CD/DVD
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Hard Drive
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Virtual Floppy
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Virtual CD/DVD/ISO
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Local SD Card
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vFlash
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Lifecycle Controller
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BIOS Boot Manager
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UEFI Device Path
NOTE:
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BIOS Setup (F2), Lifecycle Controller (F10), and BIOS Boot Manager (F11) cannot be set as permanent boot device.
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The first boot device setting in iDRAC Web Interface overrides the System BIOS boot settings.
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Use Redfish interface to set the value for UEFI device path. Booting to UEFI Device Path is supported on Dell 13
generation or newer servers.
Setting first boot device using web interface
To set the first boot device using iDRAC Web interface:
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Go to Overview → Server → Setup → First Boot Device.
The First Boot Device page is displayed.
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Select the required first boot device from the drop-down list, and click Apply.
The system boots from the selected device for subsequent reboots.
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To boot from the selected device only once on the next boot, select Boot Once. Thereafter, the system boots from the first
boot device in the BIOS boot order.
For more information about the options, see the iDRAC Online Help.
Setting first boot device using RACADM
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To set the first boot device, use the iDRAC.ServerBoot.FirstBootDevice object.
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To enable boot once for a device, use the iDRAC.ServerBoot.BootOnce object.
For more information about these objects, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at
dell.com/idracmanuals.
Setting first boot device using virtual console
You can select the device to boot from as the server is being viewed in the Virtual Console viewer before the server runs through its
boot-up sequence. You can perform boot once to all the supported devices listed in
To set the first boot device using Virtual Console:
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Launch Virtual Console.
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In the Virtual Console Viewer, from the Next Boot menu, set the required device as the first boot device.
Enabling last crash screen
To troubleshoot the cause of a crash on the managed system, you can capture the system crash image using iDRAC.
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