Sun Microsystems CP3250 manual About Bios Settings, Navigating Bios Screens, Bios Option ROMs

5.1About BIOS Settings

This section describes how to view and modify the BIOS settings.

The BIOS has a Setup utility stored in the BIOS flash memory. The Setup utility reports system information and can be used to configure the BIOS settings. The configured data is provided with context-sensitive help and is stored in the system's battery-backed CMOS RAM. If the configuration stored in the CMOS RAM is invalid, the BIOS settings will default to the original state specified at the factory.

5.1.1Navigating BIOS Screens

The BIOS Setup utility contains menu screens; see Appendix A for illustrations of the screens.

Use the left and right arrow keys to move sequentially through the BIOS screens. Fields that can be reconfigured are displayed in color. All other fields are non-configurable. Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through a screen's menu. Use the Tab key to move across columns.

5.1.2BIOS Option ROMs

The Sun Netra CP3250 blade server has an option ROM for each of the following components:

■Broadcom BCM 5715C base interfaces

■Sun 10 GbE Multithreaded Networking Technolgy interfaces

Note – PXE boot from fabric interface (Sun 10GbE Multithreaded Networking Technology interfaces) is disabled by default. You must change the BIOS setting to boot from fabric interfaces.

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