Users Guide

NOTE:

• BIOS Setup (F2), Lifecycle Controller (F10), BIOS Boot Manager (F11) only support boot once

enabled.

• Virtual Console does not support permanent boot configuration. It is always boot once.

• The first boot device setting in iDRAC Web Interface overrides the System BIOS boot settings.

Setting first boot device using web interface

To set the first boot device using iDRAC Web interface:

1. Go to Overview → Server → Setup → First Boot Device.

The First Boot Device page is displayed.

2. Select the required first boot device from the drop-down list, and click Apply.

The system boots from the selected device for subsequent reboots.

3. To boot from the selected device only once on the next boot, select Boot Once. Thereafter, the

system boots from the first boot device in the BIOS boot order.

For more information about the options, see the iDRAC Online Help.

Setting first boot device using RACADM

• To set the first boot device, use the cfgServerFirstBootDevice object.

• To enable boot once for a device, use the cfgServerBootOnce object.

For more information about these objects, see the iDRAC8 RACADM Command Line Interface Reference

Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.

Setting first boot device using virtual console

You can select the device to boot from as the server is being viewed in the Virtual Console viewer before

the server runs through its boot-up sequence. You can perform boot once to all the supported devices

listed in Setting first boot device.

To set the first boot device using Virtual Console:

1. Launch Virtual Console.

2. In the Virtual Console Viewer, from the Next Boot menu, set the required device as the first boot

device.

Enabling last crash screen

To troubleshoot the cause of managed system crash, you can capture the system crash image using

iDRAC.

To enable the last crash screen:

1. From the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD, install Server Administrator on

the managed system.

For more information, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Installation Guide at dell.com/

support/manuals.

2. In the Windows startup and recovery window, make sure that the automatic reboot option is not

selected.

For more information, see Windows documentation.