Starting The Installation - IBM xSeries 450 Planning And Installation Manual

4.2.5 Starting the installation

Before you begin, make sure:
You have created a mirror volume for Windows installation. We recommend
you install the operating system on a RAID-1 mirror rather than a single disk.
See "Configuring SCSI controller and internal disks" on page 74.
You use a GPT disk for the installation. If you are about to install Windows on
a disk previously used by an IA-32 system (with a MBR disk structure), follow
the procedure discussed in "Deleting the disk content" on page 78.
Tip: If the disk you install to is still an MBR disk, the installation procedure
will prompt you and will convert the disk to a GPT structure.
There are two ways to start the operating system installation: automatically or
manually.
Booting the installation CD automatically
From the Boot Manager menu, select the CD-ROM in the list (as shown in
Figure 4-11) and press Enter.
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.60]
Please select a boot option
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(5|1)/Ata(Primary,Master)
MemMap(0:FF000000-FFFFFFFF)
MemMap(0:FF800200-FFBFFFFF)
Acpi(PNP0A03,1)/Pci(4|0)/Mac(0002551F0113)
Acpi(PNP0A03,1)/Pci(4|1)/Mac(0002559F0113)
Flash Update
Configuration and Set Up Utility
Diagnostic Utility
Boot option maintenance menu
Figure 4-11 Boot Manager menu — selecting the CD-ROM
For three seconds, there will be a message on the screen Press any key to
boot from CD-ROM . If you do not press any key, the installation will not start and
you will return to EFI.
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