I/O Board Boot Order - HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII Installation Manual

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CAUTION The Hot Plug board bracket must be in place for all boards,
even those that do not support PCI Hot Plug. Removing the
bracket cuts power to the slot.
A PCI Hot Plug access panel in the top of the HP NetServer which
provides access to the PCI Hot Plug slots even when the server is
operating.
Indicator LEDs next to each PCI Hot Plug slot on the I/O baseboard.
These LEDs tell whether a hot-plug slot has been powered down or not, or
whether there is a problem with the slot. See Table 6-1, later in this
chapter. The LEDs are visible through openings in the rear of the HP
NetServer, and also when the PCI Hot Plug access panel is removed.

I/O Board Boot Order

Consider the HP NetServer's boot order when selecting a slot on the I/O
baseboard (Figure 6-1). If you are installing a SCSI controller board, the priority
of the controllers (where the BIOS will search for the boot drive) is set by the
board's slot location.
By default the server searches for boot devices in this order:
1. IDE CD-ROM drive
2. Flexible disk drive
3. ISA board
4. Slot P1
5. On-board SCSI
6. Slots P2 through P10
NOTE
If you want the server to boot by default from a PCI board
instead of the onboard SCSI channels, you can arrange this by
simply putting the board in slot P1. If you want to boot from a
different PCI slot, the SCSI Configuration Utility can
configure the server to skip over the onboard SCSI channels
when scanning for boot devices. See Chapter 10,
"Configuring the System."
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Installing Additional Boards