About Your System

Accessing System Features During Startup

The following keystrokes provide access to system features during startup.

Keystroke

Description

 

 

<F2>

Enters the System Setup program. See "Using the System Setup

 

Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 37.

 

 

<F10>

Enters System Services, which opens the Unified Server Configurator

 

(USC). The USC allows you to access utilities such as embedded

 

system diagnostics. For more information, see the Unified Server

 

Configurator documentation.

 

 

<F11>

Enters the BIOS Boot Manager or the UEFI Boot Manager,

 

depending on the system’s boot configuration. See "Using the System

 

Setup Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 37.

 

 

<F12>

Starts PXE boot.

 

 

<Ctrl><E>

Enters the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) or iDRAC

 

Configuration Utility, which allows access to the System Event Log

 

(SEL) and configuration of remote access to the system. For more

 

information, see the BMC or iDRAC user documentation.

 

 

<Ctrl><C>

Enters the SAS Configuration Utility. For more information, see your

 

SAS adapter documentation.

 

 

<Ctrl><R>

Enters the RAID configuration utility. For more information, see the

 

documentation for your SAS RAID card.

 

 

<Ctrl><S>

Enters the utility to configure NIC settings for PXE boot. For more

 

information, see the documentation for your integrated NIC.

 

 

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