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Setting the Drive-Startup Sequence

The drive startup sequence allows you to control the startup sequence of the drives in your server. Each time you turn on the server, it checks the drives as it looks for the operating system. The order in which the system checks the drives is the drive-startup sequence.

In most cases, you do not need to change the default drive-startup sequence. However, you might want to do so if you are working with multiple operating systems, or diskette drives of different sizes.

The default drive-startup sequence first checks the primary diskette drive for a self-starting (bootable) diskette. If one is present, the operating system or program is loaded from the diskette. If not, the system then checks the primary hard disk drive for an operating system. If one is present, it loads the operating system from that hard disk drive.

If you start the system from a diskette, the drive that contains the diskette becomes drive A, regardless of the defined sequence, and the first hard disk drive that you select in the startup sequence becomes drive C.

If you elect to switch the startup sequence of the diskette drives, use the Floppy Options selection in the System Configuration Utility program Main Menu screen.

To change the startup sequence:

1.Start the System Configuration Utility program.

2.Select Peripheral Configuration Group.

3.Scroll through the settings and locate the Boot Subsystem Group; then, follow the instructions on the screen.

56PC Server 704 User's Handbook

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IBM 704 manual Setting the Drive-Startup Sequence, Select Peripheral Configuration Group