NEC MH4500 manual Hard Drive Submenu, Boot Device Priority Submenu, Configuring Your System

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Boot Device Priority Submenu

Boot Device Priority Submenu

Boot Priority

Device

Description

Your Setting

1.

Diskette Drive

Attempts to boot from

 

 

 

drive A.

 

2.

Removable Devices

Attempts to boot from a removable

 

 

 

media device.

 

3.

Hard Drive

Attempts to boot from a hard drive

 

 

 

device.

 

4.

ATAPI CD-ROM

Attempts to boot from an ATAPI

 

 

Drive

CD-ROM drive.

 

 

 

 

 

Hard Drive Submenu

The following table gives the settings for the Hard Drive Submenu. For options on this menu, use the up or down arrow keys to select a device, then press the <+> or <->keys to move the device higher or lower in the boot priority list.

 

Hard Drive Submenu

 

 

Option

Description

 

 

1. Hard Drive #1 (or

IDE drives have a suffix attached to the drive ID string:

actual drive string)

PM - hard drive on Primary Master Channel

 

 

PS - hard drive on Primary Slave Channel

 

SCSI CD-ROMs are displayed here because the onboard Symbios SCSI BIOS

 

treats CD-ROMs as hard drives.

 

SCSI removable drives also appear here.

2. Other Bootable

Covers all the boot devices that are not reported to the system BIOS through

Devices

the BIOS boot specification mechanism. This includes all PCI boards that are

 

not BIOS boot compliant (legacy) as well as ISA cards that are not PnP

 

compliant. ISA legacy cards boot first before non BIOS boot compliant PCI

 

boards (in scan order from lowest slot to highest).

 

 

Configuring Your System 3-15

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NEC MH4500 manual Hard Drive Submenu, Boot Device Priority Submenu, Configuring Your System