Restoring And Customizing Configuration Settings; Secure Boot Configuration - HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 Maintenance And Service Manual

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Browse all FAT16 and FAT32 file systems.
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Select an X64 UEFI application with an .EFI extension to add as a new UEFI boot option, such as
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an OS boot loader or other UEFI application.
The new boot option is appended to the boot order list. When you select a file, you are prompted
to enter the boot option description (which is then displayed in the Boot menu), as well as any
optional data to be passed to an .EFI application.
Boot to System Utilities
After pre-POST, the boot options screen appears. During this time, you can access the UEFI System
Utilities by pressing the F9 key.
Choose between supported modes: Legacy BIOS Boot Mode or UEFI Boot Mode
IMPORTANT: If the default boot mode settings are different than the user defined settings,
the system may not boot the OS installation if the defaults are restored. To avoid this issue, use
the User Defined Defaults feature in UEFI System Utilities to override the factory default
settings.
For more information, see the HPE UEFI System Utilities User Guide for HPE ProLiant Gen9 Servers on
the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website (http://www.hpe.com/info/uefi/docs).

Restoring and customizing configuration settings

You can reset all configuration settings to the factory default settings, or you can restore system default
configuration settings, which are used instead of the factory default settings.
You can also configure default settings as necessary, and then save the configuration as the custom
default configuration. When the system loads the default settings, it uses the custom default settings
instead of the factory defaults.

Secure Boot configuration

Secure Boot is integrated in the UEFI specification on which the Hewlett Packard Enterprise
implementation of UEFI is based. Secure Boot is completely implemented in the BIOS and does not
require special hardware. It ensures that each component launched during the boot process is digitally
signed and that the signature is validated against a set of trusted certificates embedded in the UEFI BIOS.
Secure Boot validates the software identity of the following components in the boot process:
UEFI drivers loaded from PCIe cards
UEFI drivers loaded from mass storage devices
Pre-boot UEFI shell applications
OS UEFI boot loaders
Once enabled, only firmware components and operating systems with boot loaders that have an
appropriate digital signature can execute during the boot process. Only operating systems that support
Secure Boot and have an EFI boot loader signed with one of the authorized keys can boot when Secure
Boot is enabled. For more information about supported operating systems, see the HPE UEFI System
Utilities and Shell Release Notes for HPE ProLiant Gen9 Servers on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise
website (http://www.hpe.com/info/uefi/docs).
A physically present user can customize the certificates embedded in the UEFI BIOS by adding/removing
their own certificates.
When Secure Boot is enabled, the System Maintenance Switch does not restore all manufacturing
defaults when set to the ON position. For security reasons, the following are not restored to defaults when
the System Maintenance Switch is in the ON position:
Secure Boot is not disabled and remains enabled.
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