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length of time needed to complete POST depends on the amount
of memory installed and the number of option boards installed.
7 Shortly after the splash screen is displayed, POST displays the
message "Press <F2> to enter Setup…" at the bottom of the
screen. At this point, you can press any of the keys identified with
an asterisk (*) on the following table, or you can do nothing and
wait until the server boots from the CD-ROM.
If you enter BIOS setup, the service partition, or the Adaptec
®
SCSISelect utility, when you exit those features, the server might
reboot.
8 After POST completes, the system beeps once and then searches all
boot devices in the order defined by the boot priority settings in
the BIOS. The system finds, loads, and runs the limited operating
system on the System CD.
If there is no device with a bootable operating system, the boot
process continues, the system beeps once, and the following
message is displayed:
Operating system not found
If you have a device with a bootable operating system but see this
message anyway, reboot and use BIOS setup to make sure your
boot device settings are correct.
Hot keys for POST
The table below lists the hot keys you can use during POST to access
setup utilities and alter the normal POST execution.
Items marked with an asterisk (*): Press any of these keys when the
prompt "Press <F2> to enter Setup…" is displayed
.
To do this: Press these keys:
Abort memory test during POST. Space
Press while BIOS is updating
memory size on screen.
Resume after a POST error is
displayed. (The system pauses after
displaying an error.)
F1
Enter BIOS setup during POST. F2 *
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