Configuring one-time boot
To temporarily ignore the configured boot and instead boot to a specified device one time, use the information in this topic.
Click Boot Options under Server Configuration and select a device from the drop-down menu to configure the device that the system will boot to one-time on the next server restart. The following choices are available:
- PXE network
- Sets up your server to attempt a Preboot Execution Environment network boot.
- Primary removable media
- The server is booted from the default USB device.
- Default CD/DVD
- The server is booted from the default CD/DVD drive.
- F1 system setup
- The server is booted into the Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager.
- Diagnostic Partition
- The server is booted into the Diagnostics section of the Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager.
- Default Hard Disk
- The server is booted from the default disk drive.
- Primary remote media
- The server is booted from the mounted virtual media.
- Mounted
- The configured boot order is used. There is no one-time boot override of the configured boot order.
- No one-time boot
- The configured boot order is used. There is no one-time boot override of the configured boot order.
When you select a one-time change to the boot order, you must select a restart option before applying the change.
- Restart server immediately: The boot order change is saved and the server is restarted immediately without shutting down the operating system.
- Restart server normally: The boot order change is saved and the operating system is shutdown before restarting the server.
- Manually restart later: The boot order change is saved, but will not take effect until the next time the server is rebooted.
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