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Intel Desktop Board DH67CF Technical Product Specification 3.7 Boot Options In the BIOS Setup program, the user can choose to boot from a hard drive, optical drive, removable drive, or the network. The default setting is for the optical drive to be the first boot device, the hard drive second, removable drive third, and the network fourth. 3.7.1 Optical Drive Boot Booting from the optical drive is supported in compliance to the El Torito bootable CD-ROM format specification. Under the Boot menu in the BIOS Setup program, the optical drive is listed as a boot device. Boot devices are defined in priority order. Accordingly, if there is not a bootable CD in the optical drive, the system will attempt to boot from the next defined drive. 3.7.2 Network Boot The network can be selected as a boot device. This selection allows booting from the onboard LAN or a network add-in card with a remote boot ROM installed. Pressing the key during POST automatically forces booting from the LAN. To use this key during POST, the User Access Level in the BIOS Setup program's Security menu must be set to Full. 3.7.3 Booting Without Attached Devices For use in embedded applications, the BIOS has been designed so that after passing the POST, the operating system loader is invoked even if the following devices are not present: • Video adapter • Keyboard • Mouse 3.7.4 Changing the Default Boot Device During POST Pressing the key during POST causes a boot device menu to be displayed. This menu displays the list of available boot devices. Table 39 lists the boot device menu options. Table 39. Boot Device Menu Options Boot Device Menu Function Keys or Description Selects a default boot device Exits the menu, and boots from the selected device Exits the menu and boots according to the boot priority defined through BIOS setup 66