Compaq LP8000-F1 manual Boot Bios, System Requirements

Chapter 7

Boot BIOS

Introduction

Boot BIOS is a set of x86 instructions in the 64-Bit PCI-To-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) flash ROM that lets you designate a fibre channel hard drive as the boot drive. Boot BIOS works with the existing system BIOS on Intel Pentium class PCI system boards.

NOTE: The examples in this chapter use the Windows NT 4.0 operating system.

Boot BIOS does the following:

■Supports up to eight fibre channel HBAs per computer

■Detects up to 99 devices per HBA

■Displays a maximum of 16 devices during the boot process

System Requirements

■Intel Pentium Class computer, with system BIOS copyright 1995 or later

■MS-DOS 6.0 or higher

■Windows NT 4.0 installation media

■Installed HBA