Chapter 4

BIOS Features

This chapter describes the Fibre Channel (FC) BIOS and Configuration Utility and includes the following sections:

•Section 4.1, “LSI Logic Boot BIOS”

•Section 4.2, “Starting the LSI Logic Boot BIOS Configuration Utility”

•Section 4.3, “Using the LSI Logic Boot BIOS CU”

•Section 4.4, “Main Menu”

•Section 4.5, “Exiting the LSI Logic Boot BIOS Configuration Utility”

•Section 4.6, “Troubleshooting”

•Section 4.7, “OpenBoot BIOS”

A BIOS is the ROM code that the system loads to facilitate booting from FC drives. The BIOS also contains an embedded configuration manager, with which you configure options provided by the firmware. The LSI Logic BIOS integrates with a standard system BIOS, extending the standard disk service routine provided through INT13h.

Two types of BIOS are available for the LSI Logic host adapters:

•LSI Logic FC boot BIOS for Intel/AMD-based platforms, and

•LSI Logic FC OpenBoot BIOS for Solaris SPARC platforms.

Both the LSI Logic boot BIOS and OpenBoot BIOS are stored on the FC host adapter boards.

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