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Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 6.0 for PowerEdge M1000e User’s Guide

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Setting First Boot Device

You can specify the CMC first boot device for each server. This may not be the actual first boot device for the server or even represent a device present in that server; instead it represents a device sent by CMC to the server and used as its first boot device for that server.

You can set the default boot device and set a one-time boot device so that you can boot an image to perform tasks such as running diagnostics or reinstalling an operating system.

You can set the first boot device for the next boot only or for all subsequent reboots. Based on this selection, you can set the first boot device for the server. The system boots from the selected device on the next and subsequent reboots and remains as the first boot device in the BIOS boot order, until it is changed again either from the CMC Web interface or from the BIOS boot sequence.

NOTE The first boot device setting in CMC Web Interface overrides the System BIOS boot settings.

The boot device that you specify must exist and contain bootable media.

You can set the following devices for first boot.

Table 1. : Boot DevicesThe following table contains descriptions of the boot devices.
Boot Device Description
PXE Boot from a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol on the network interface card.
Hard Drive Boot from the hard drive on the server.
Local CD/DVD Boot from a CD/DVD drive on the server.
Virtual Floppy Boot from the virtual floppy drive. The floppy drive (or a floppy disk image) is on another computer on the management network, and is attached using the iDRAC GUI console viewer.
Virtual CD/DVD Boot from a virtual CD/DVD drive or CD/DVD ISO image. The optical drive or ISO image file is on another computer or disk available on the management network and is attached using the iDRAC GUI console viewer.
iSCSI Boot from an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) device.
NOTE This option is supported only till Dell’s 11th generation of PowerEdge servers.
Local SD Card Boot from the local SD (Secure Digital) card - for servers that support iDRAC system only.
Floppy Boot from a floppy disk in the local floppy disk drive.
RFS Boot from a Remote File Share (RFS) image. The image file is attached using the iDRAC GUI console viewer.
UEFI Device Path Boot from the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) device path on the server.

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