- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Pre-operating system management applications
- System Setup
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
You can use the Boot Settings screen to set the boot mode to either BIOS or UEFI. It also enables you to specify the boot order.
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Boot Mode | Enables you to set the boot mode of the system. If the operating system supports UEFI, you can set this option to UEFI. Setting this field to BIOS allows compatibility with non-UEFI operating systems. This option is set to
UEFI by default.
CAUTION Switching the boot mode may prevent the system from booting if the operating system is not installed in the same boot mode.
NOTE Setting this field to UEFI disables the
BIOS Boot Settings menu.
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Boot Sequence Retry | Enables or disables the Boot sequence retry feature or resets the system. When If this option is set to Enabled and the system fails to boot, the system re-attempts the boot sequence after 30 seconds. When this option is set to Reset and the system fails to boot, the system reboots immediately. This option is set to Enabled by default. | ||||||
Hard-disk Failover | Enables or disables the Hard-disk failover. This option is set to Disabled by default. | ||||||
Generic USB Boot | Enables or disables the generic USB boot placeholder. This option is set to Disabled by default. | ||||||
Hard-disk Drive Placeholder | Enables or disables the Hard-disk drive placeholder. This option is set to Disabled by default. | ||||||
Clean all Sysprep order and variables | When this option is set to None, BIOS will do nothing. When set to Yes, BIOS will delete variables of SysPrep #### and SysPrepOrder this option is a onetime option, will reset to none when deleting variables. This setting is only available in UEFI Boot Mode. This option is set to None by default. | ||||||
UEFI Boot Settings | Specifies the UEFI boot sequence. Enables or disables UEFI Boot options.
NOTE This option controls the UEFI boot order. The first option in the list will be attempted first.
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