IBM SC32-P020-00 manual Start Options, Advanced Setup, System Partition Visibility

The administrator password provides access to all choices on the Configuration/Setup Utility main menu. You can set, change, or delete both the administrator and power-on passwords and allow a power-on password to be changed by the user.

See “Using passwords” on page 19 for more information.

vStart Options

Select this choice to view or change the start options. This choice appears only on the full Configuration/Setup Utility main menu. Start options take effect when you start your server.

You can select keyboard operating characteristics, such as the keyboard speed. You also can specify whether the keyboard number lock starts on or off. You also can enable the server to run without a diskette drive, monitor, or keyboard.

Note: If you attach a standard (non-USB) keyboard to the keyboard port, the USB ports and devices will be disabled during the power-on self-test (POST). You might need to enable keyboardless operation to prevent the POST error message 301 from being displayed during startup. For detailed information about this option and how to connect it to your server, refer to the documentation that comes with the option.

The server uses a startup sequence to determine the device from which the operating system is loaded. For example, you can define a startup sequence that checks for a startable diskette in the diskette drive, then checks the hard disk drive in bay 1, and then checks a network adapter.

You can set the Planar Ethernet PXE/DHCP menu choice to enable or disable the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) option for the integrated Gigabit Ethernet controller. The default setting for this menu item is Planar Ethernet, which enables the PXE option. To disable this option, select Disabled.

If the Boot Fail Count choice is enabled, you can restore the BIOS system defaults after three consecutive boot failures. If this choice is disabled, the BIOS system defaults can be loaded only from the Configuration/Setup Utility main menu.

You can enable a virus-detection test that checks for changes in the master boot record at startup.

vAdvanced Setup

Select this choice to change values for advanced hardware features, such as cache control, PCI configuration, Hot Spare Memory, and Hyper-Threading technology. This choice appears only on the full Configuration/Setup Utility main menu.

A warning message appears above the choices on this menu to alert you that the system might malfunction if these options are configured incorrectly. Follow the instructions on the screen carefully.

–System Partition Visibility

Select this choice to indicate whether the System Partition is visible. To make the System Partition visible, set this value to Visible. To make the System Partition invisible, set this value to Hidden. See Chapter 3, “Using the ServerGuide CD” on page 23 for additional information about the System Partition.

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