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Deploying UEFI‐Aware Operating Systems on Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers By Anand Joshi, Bill Munger, Mark Shutt, Thomas Cantwell, and John Sieber - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. © 2009 Dell Inc. Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. For more information, contact Dell. Dell, the DELL logo, and the DELL badge, and PowerEdge are trademarks of Dell - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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has to Offer...3 How is Dell's UEFI implemented? ...3 Differences between BIOS and UEFI Boot Modes 4 UEFI Boot Options ...4 Automatic and Manual Boot Options ...4 Booting to a Removable Media Device...5 UEFI Boot Manager ...5 Boot Options...5 UEFI Boot Settings ...5 System Utilities ...6 Deploying - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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services and drivers, leaving only the run‐time services and drivers. Drivers: EFI drivers differ from EFI applications in that the driver stays resident in memory unless an error is returned from the driver's entry point. The EFI core firmware, the boot manager, or other EFI applications may load - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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system drivers, provide support for new devices and may provide enhanced platform capabilities, such as firmware update, platform configuration, diagnostics and deployment services. The existence of networking, USB, and file system capabilities adds to the richness of the pre‐boot environment. GUID - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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Boot Manager Boot Order Control Via BIOS Setup Utility Via UEFI Boot Manager USB Emulation Supported via BIOS Setup Utility Not needed Default Boot Order Traditional Dell BIOS default boot order None Boot Options Legacy BIOS boots to a drive. Support for multi‐boot drive requires a boot - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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the BIOS Boot Manager and the boot configuration options in the BIOS Setup Utility . When the Boot Mode is set to UEFI the BIOS Setup Utility fields, Boot Sequence and USB Flash Drive Emulation Type are grayed out, replaced by enhanced options in the UEFI Boot Manager. Boot Options The front - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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pressing during the pre‐boot phase of system startup. System Services Enters System Services. This can also be entered by pressing during the pre‐boot phase of system startup. BIOS Boot Manager Enters the BIOS Boot Manager to provide the ability to boot to a non‐UEFI aware operating - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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Operating System Once the hardware and firmware support UEFI, the operating system needs to be redesigned to support UEFI. UEFI is still an emerging technology and standard, so there are only a few operating systems that have full support. Dell offers both legacy BIOS‐mode and UEFI‐mode. Operating - Dell PowerEdge R710 | Deploying
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second system. UEFI Legacy Boot Controllers The UEFI layer provides the abstraction driver to access the disks using the interrupt 0x13 functions. The following Dell UEFI Legacy boot controllers operate using legacy abstraction supported in UEFI mode: Dell PERC 6/i Dell SAS 6/iR Future controllers
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Deploying UEFI
‐
Aware Operating
Systems on Dell™ PowerEdge™
Servers
By
Anand Joshi, Bill Munger, Mark Shutt,
Thomas Cantwell, and John Sieber