S2600GZ and S2600GL

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BIOS Setup Utility Intel® Server Board S2600GZ/GL TPS
The first boot device in the specified Boot Order which is present and is bootable during POST will be used to
boot the system, and will continue to be used to reboot the system until the boot device configuration has
changed (that is, which boot devices are present), or until the system has been powered down and booted in a
“cold” power-on boot.
Note: USB devices can be “hotplugged” during POST, and will be detected and “beeped”. They will be
enumerated and displayed on the USB Configuration Setup screen. However, they may not be enumerated as
bootable devices, depending on when in POST they were hotplugged. If they were recognized before the
enumeration of bootable devices, they will appear as Boot Devices if appropriate. If they were recognized after
Boot Device enumeration, they will not appear as a bootable device for the Boot Options screen, the Boot
Manager screen, or the F6 Boot Menu.
There are two main types of boot order control, Legacy Boot and EFI Optimized boot. These are mutually
exclusive when EFI Optimized Boot is enabled, Legacy Boot (the default) is disabled. Within Legacy Boot
operation, there are two further methods of ordering boot devices, Dynamic Boot Order and Static Boot Order.
The default for Boot Order control is Legacy Boot, with Dynamic Boot Order. If all types of bootable devices are
installed in the system, then the default Boot Order is as follows :
CD/DVD-ROM
Floppy Disk Drive
Hard Disk Drive
PXE Network Device
BEV (Boot Entry Vector) Device
EFI Shell and EFI Boot paths
In this default Boot Order, a USB device may appear in any of several Device Classes, due to the flexibility of
USB connections and USB emulation of various types of devices.
Note: A USB Key (USB Flash Drive) can be formatted to emulate either a Floppy Drive or a Hard Drive and will
appear in that Boot Device Class. However, although it can be formatted as a CDROM Drive, it will not be
detected as such. It will be treated as a Hard Disk and will appear in the list of available Hard Drives.
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