Supermicro X10SLM-F no boot device selection at startup?

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Looking for a sanity check and hoping to hear from others with Supermicro X10SL* series server boards.

After skimming the manual and poking around in the BIOS, it seems that this board doesn't have a boot selection screen available on startup. (There are some youtube videos with unspecified Supermicro hardware where F11 brought up a selection screen, but that didn't do anything, and neither did pressing ALL OF THE BUTTONS, which usually does a thing.)

So every time I want to switch boot devices, I have to go into the BIOS, save a new boot setting, and reboot?

That doesn't seem very friendly. But then again it's a server board and they're definitely not user friendly. But then again I'm wrong a lot. Thoughts? :)
 
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I rarely ever reboot or have to switch boot devices so all that doesn't really bother me.
Yeah, it's definitely been a while. ;)

But I was trying to install Linux on a second HDD yesterday, to try migrating away from FreeBSD, and installation media is giving me fits. (Some of my USB drives don't seem to like being boot devices. IPMI virtual device boot is oddly sluggish.)