5.6Boot Menu

The motherboard BIOS supports the BIOS Boot Specification (BBS) version 1.01. BBS is an intelligent mechanism that provides flexible ways to set boot sequence for Initial Program Load (IPL) devices such as CD-ROMs, network remote boot ROM, and SCSI or RAID controllers on PnP cards.

The IPL devices are classified into three categories:

1.BIOS Aware IPL Devices (BAID)

2.PnP devices, includes Boot Connection Vector (BCV) and Bootstrap Entry Vector (BEV) devices

3.Legacy devices

1st Boot : (BAID) [<0> Floppy]

This field allows you to select a BIOS Aware IPL Devices (BAID) to boot from. A BAID is any device that can boot on an operating system but requires a specific BIOS code for support. Bootable FDDs, ATA HDD, ATAPI CD-ROM, ATA ZIP, and ATA MO drives are classified as BAID. The drives present in the system will appear as options for this field.

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Chapter 5: BIOS setup