Chapter 4. Installing An Operating System In Uefi Mode; Before Installing An Operating System In Uefi Mode; Installing A Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RS140 Installation Manual

Chapter 4. Installing an operating system in UEFI mode

This chapter provides information about installing operating systems in UEFI mode.

Before installing an operating system in UEFI mode

Before installing an operating system in UEFI mode, do the following:
1. Perform the operations in Chapter 2 "Before installing an operating system" on page 3.
2. Start the Setup Utility program.
3. On the Boot Manager menu, select Miscellaneous Boot Settings and press Enter.
4. On the Storage OpROM policy menu, select UEFI only.

Installing a Microsoft Windows 7 operating system

This topic provides instructions on how to install the following operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition (x64) with Service Pack 1
• Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (x64) with Service Pack 1
To install the Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition (x64) with Service Pack 1, do the following:
1. Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup
device. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver for the onboard SATA software RAID or
installed RAID card to your server. Then, start the server from the optical drive.
2. If the message Press any key to boot from cd is displayed, press any key. If the message Windows Setup
[EMS Enabled] is displayed, press Enter. Wait several minutes for the system to load the files.
3. If the Windows 7 installation window is displayed, configure the language and other options as you need
and then click Next.
4. If prompted, click Install now.
5. Read the license terms and select I accept the license terms. Then, click Next.
6. If prompted, select the type of installation as you need. The following steps are based on the scenario
that Custom (Advanced) is selected in this step.
7. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, click Load Driver.
8. When the Load Driver window is displayed, browse to the folder where the driver is stored, and click OK.
The "Select the driver to install" window is displayed
9. Select Hide drivers that are not compatible with hardware on this computer. Then, click Next.
10. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, click Drive options (advanced).
11. Select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the operating system, and then click New.
12. Type the amount of space (in MB), and then click Apply.
13. When the Install Windows dialog box is displayed, click OK ➙ Next. The installation begins.
Note: Your server will restart several times during the installation.
14. Type your user name and password when prompted.
Note: The password must consist of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and digits.
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