About your system, Accessing system features during startup – Dell DX6000 User Manual

Page 11

Advertising
background image

About Your System

11

1

About Your System

Accessing System Features During Startup

The following keystrokes provide access to system features during startup.

Keystroke

Description

<F2>

Enters the System Setup program. See "Using the System Setup

Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 57.

<F10>

Enters System Services, which opens the Unified Server Configurator

from which you can access utilities such as system diagnostics.

For more information, see the Unified Server Configurator

user documentation.

NOTE:

Some Unified Server Configurator processing, such as software

updates, can cause virtual devices to be created that at times may

appear as USB devices attached to your system. These connections are

both secure and temporary, and can be disregarded.

<F11>

Enters the BIOS Boot Manager or the UEFI Boot Manager,

depending on your system’s boot configuration. See "Using the

System Setup Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 57.

<F12>

Enters PXE boot, if enabled.

<Ctrl><E> Enters the iDRAC Configuration Utility, which allows access to the

system event log (SEL) and configuration of remote access to the

system. For more information, see the iDRAC user documentation.

<Ctrl><R> Enters the PERC configuration utility. For more information, see the

PERC card documentation.

<Ctrl><S> Enters the utility to configure NIC settings for PXE boot. For more

information, see the documentation for your embedded NIC.

Advertising