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Oracle Hardware CLI Tools Overview
Installing Components Using the Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installer
Installing Hardware Management Pack Components Using Installer
CLI Tools Command Syntax and Conventions
CLI Tools Device-Naming Convention
How to View biosconfig Command Options
How to View biosconfig Version Information
How to Set the First Boot Device for the Next Boot
How to Make a Persistent Change to Boot Order
How to Specify a Subset of Strings and a Subset of the Boot List
How to Change Boot Order Based on the PCI Bus, Device, or Function
Commands That Produce Unrelated, Innocuous, Extra Output
fwupdate Command-Line Interface
remove spare Subcommand and Options
Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1
During BIOS power-on self-test (POST), BIOS scans the hardware and accumulates a list of bootable devices. That list is then ordered into categories and presented as a boot list, which is the ordered list of bootable devices on which a boot is attempted.
This boot list changes as devices are installed and removed, for example, when you are doing the following:
Changing a disk drive, which might change the string used to represent that bootable device.
Installing and removing USB devices.
Starting and stopping the javaConsole floppy and CD redirection.
Adding or removing PCI cards or express modules.
This section covers the following topics: