Selecting a Bootable Drive (x86)

After preparing to use the BIOS Configuration utility (as described in To Prepare to Use the BIOS Configuration Utility), you can select the bootable drive on which to install the OS on an x86 system. This section contains the following topic:

• To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)

To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)

1. From the Adapter Properties screen (SAS Topology Screen), navigate to the SAS Topology field, and press Enter.

   The SAS Topology screen is displayed.

2. Navigate to the device that you want, and press Alt+B to select the device as the primary boot device.
3. If you want an alternate boot device, navigate to the device that you want, and press Alt+A.
4. Confirm the changes you have made, save the configuration, and then press Esc to exit out of the utility.

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   Note - Additional boot devices for the HBA might be present in the system BIOS as possible disk selections. However, these devices are not guaranteed to be consistent through storage configuration changes.

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Next Steps

Validate the label of the bootable drive that you created (See Validating the Oracle Solaris Labels of the HBA Drives).