Dell PowerEdge 7250 User Manual

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Terminal Mode Commands

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These flags are used to allow individual parties to track whether

they have already seen and handled the boot information.

Applications that deal with boot information should check the

boot info and clear their corresponding bit after consuming the

boot options data.
Data 1: Write Mask (write-only—This field is returned as 00h

when read. This is to eliminate the need for the BMC to provide

storage for the Write Mask field.)
[7] - 1b = enable write to bit 7 of Data field.
[6] - 1b = enable write to bit 6 of Data field.
[5] - 1b = enable write to bit 5 of Data field.
[4] - 1b = enable write to bit 4 of Data field.
[3] - 1b = enable write to bit 3 of Data field.
[2] - 1b = enable write to bit 2 of Data field.
[1] - 1b = enable write to bit 1 of Data field.
[0] - 1b = enable write to bit 0 of Data field.
Data 2: Boot Initiator Acknowledge Data.
The boot initiator should typically write FFh to this parameter

prior to initiating the boot. The boot initiator may write 0s if it

wants to intentionally direct a given party to ignore the boot info.

This field is automatically initialized to 00h when the management

controller is first powered up or reset.
[7] - reserved. Write as 1b. Ignore on read.
[6] - reserved. Write as 1b. Ignore on read.
[5] - reserved. Write as 1b. Ignore on read.
[4] - 0b = OEM has handled boot info.
[3] - 0b = SMS has handled boot info.
[2] - 0b = OS / service partition has handled boot info.
[1] - 0b = OS Loader has handled boot info.
[0] - 0b = BIOS/POST has handled boot info.

Table C-5. Boot Option Parameters

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Parameter

Number

Parameter Data (non-volatile unless otherwise noted)

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