Chapter 2 Powering On and Configuring BIOS Settings 2-9
Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers Ethernet Port Boot Priority
The order in which the BIOS detects the Ethernet ports during bootup and the
corresponding drivers that control those ports are listed below:
1. NET 0 (NVIDIA CK8-04 NIC)
2. NET 1 (NVIDIA IO-04 NIC)
3. NET 2 (Intel NIC)
4. NET 3 (Intel NIC)
2.3.5 BIOS Option ROM Size Limitation
The BIOS Option ROM is 128 KB. Of these 128 KB, approximately 80 KB are used by
the VGA controller, the LSI controller, and the network interface card.
Approximately 48 KB remain for the Option ROM.
2.3.6 BIOS Setup Screen Overview
TABLE 2-1 contains summary descriptions of the seven top-level BIOS setup screens.
TABLE 2-1 BIOS Setup Screens Summary
Screen Description
Main General system information.
Advanced Configuration interface for the CPUs, IDE, SuperIO, ACPI, Event
Log, HyperTransport, IPMI, MPS, PCI-Express, PowerNow!, Remote
Access, and USB.
PCI/PnP Plug-and-Play (PnP) devices can be configured by the BIOS (default)
or by the operating system (if applicable).
Boot Configure the boot device priority (hard disk drives and the ATAPI
DVD-ROM drive).
Security Install or change the user and supervisor passwords.
Chipset Configuration options for the NorthBridge and SouthBridge devices
and PCI-X devices.
Note that the Memory Chipkill option is enabled by default. Enabling
Chipkill improves system reliability, but degrades system
performance under specific applications.
Exit Save or discard changes.
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