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Option
Description
Hard-Disk Failover
Specifies the drive that is booted in the event of a drive failure. The devices are selected in the Hard-Disk Drive
Sequence on the Boot Option Setting menu. When this option is set to Disabled, only the first drive in the list is
attempted to boot. When this option is set to Enabled, all drives are attempted to boot in the order selected in the
Hard-Disk Drive Sequence. This option is not enabled for UEFI Boot Mode. This option is set to Disabled by
default.
Generic USB boot
Enables or disables generic USB boot.
Hard-disk Drive
Enables or disables Hard-disk Drive Placeholder.
Placeholder
UEFI Boot Settings Enables or disables UEFI Boot options.
The Boot options include IPv4 PXE and IPv6 PXE. This option is set to IPv4 by default.
Network Settings
You can use the Network Settings screen to modify UEFI PXE, iSCSI, and HTTP boot settings. The network settings option is available
only in the UEFI mode.
NOTE:
BIOS does not control network settings in the BIOS mode. For the BIOS boot mode, the optional Boot ROM of the
network controllers handles the network settings.
Viewing Network Settings
To view the Network Settings screen, perform the following steps:
1
Power on, or restart your system.
2
Press F2 immediately after you see the following message:
F2 = System Setup
NOTE:
If your operating system begins to load before you press F2, wait for the system to finish booting, and then restart
your system and try again.
3
On the System Setup Main Menu screen, click System BIOS.
4
On the System BIOS screen, click Network Settings.
Network Settings screen details
The Network Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Option
Description
PXE Device n (n = 1
Enables or disables the device. When enabled, a UEFI PXE boot option is created for the device.
to 4)
PXE Device n
Enables you to control the configuration of the PXE device.
Settings(n = 1 to 4)
HTTP Device n (n =
Enables or disables the device. When enabled, a UEFI HTTP boot option is created for the device.
1 to 4)
HTTP Device n
Enables you to control the configuration of the HTTP device.
Settings (n = 1 to 4)
NOTE:
This option is enabled only if the boot mode is UEFI.
Pre-operating system management applications
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