Attention: If you set an administrator password and then forget it, there is no way to change, override, or remove it. You must replace the system board.

Using the Boot Manager program

The Boot Manager program is a built-in, menu-driven configuration utility program that you can use to temporarily redefine the first startup device without changing settings in the Setup utility.

To use the Boot Manager program, complete the following steps:

1.Turn off the server.

2.Restart the server.

3.When the prompt <F12> Select Boot Device is displayed, press F12. If a bootable USB mass storage device is installed, a submenu item (USB Key/Disk) is displayed.

4.Use the Up arrow and Down arrow keys to select an item from the Boot Selection Menu and press Enter.

The next time the server starts, it returns to the startup sequence that is set in the Setup utility.

Configuring RAID controllers

The following table lists the various utilities available to configure RAID controllers before an operating system is installed.

Table 10. RAID utilities

RAID configuration

 

 

 

Where to find more

utility

Description

Location

information

 

 

 

 

 

EasyStartup RAID

v

For use with all

EasyStartup DVD

“Using the

configuration utility

 

factory-supported

 

EasyStartup DVD” on

 

 

 

page 127

 

 

RAID controllers

 

 

 

 

 

 

v

Automatically

 

 

 

 

detects hardware

 

 

 

 

and lists all

 

 

 

 

supported RAID

 

 

 

 

configurations

 

 

 

v

Configures one

 

 

 

 

disk array per

 

 

 

 

controller using all

 

 

 

 

drives currently

 

 

 

 

attached to the

 

 

 

 

controller

 

 

 

v

Created a RAID

 

 

 

 

response file that

 

 

 

 

can be used to

 

 

 

 

configure RAID

 

 

 

 

controllers on

 

 

 

 

similarly configured

 

 

 

 

Lenovo servers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RD210 specifications

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