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Using the EFI Boot Manager and Dell Utilities
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 7150 Systems User's Guide
PowerEdge 7150 System Support CD
Updating or Restoring the System BIOS
This section describes your system's Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager program, the PowerEdge 7150 System Support CD, and the Dell Utilities
program. They provide access to various utilities which you may use to configure your system.
EFI Boot Manager
The EFI Boot Manager menu lets you access the operating systems installed on your system, a boot manager utility, and the Utilities menu.
Entering the EFI Boot Manager
1. Turn on your system by pressing the power button on the system front panel.
If your system is already on, reboot it.
2. Wait until the system tests are completed.
The EFI Boot Manager screen appears.
Selecting EFI Boot Manager Options
From the EFI Boot Manager screen, you can select the following options:
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Operating systems installed on your system
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Boot Option Maintenance Manager Menu — Use this option to select which devices the system can be booted from, and their relative order.
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Utilities — Select this option to go to the Utilities Option Menu. For more information on this menu, see "
Utilities Option Menu
This menu includes the following options:
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EFI Shell — Use this option to run command-driven programs from the Shell prompt.
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Dell Utilities — Select this option to run the Dell Utilities program. See "
" for more information on this program.
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BIOS Update — Select this option to update the system BIOS to the latest version. See "
Updating or Restoring the System BIOS
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program.
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Firmware Update — Select this option to update the system firmware to the latest version.
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Run Dell Diagnostics from diskette — Select this option to run the system hardware diagnostics. (For more information, see "Running the Dell Diagnostics" in
your Installation and Troubleshooting Guide.)
Dell Utilities
The Dell Utilities include the Dell Diagnostics program, as well as features that can help you configure your system to best meet your needs. You run the utilities from
an EFI System Partition that you can create on the system boot hard-disk drive, using the PowerEdge 7150 System Support CD. (See "
" for more information on this CD.)
Starting the Dell Utilities
If you have created an EFI System Partition on the system's boot hard-disk drive and installed the utilities on this partition, you can run the Dell Utilities. To run the Dell
Utilities from the hard-disk drive, perform the following steps:
1. Turn on your system by pressing the power button on the system front panel.