Dell Products Inc.

Carl McAdams

Ruhull Bhuiyan

Ibrahim Sayyed

Allen Chester Wynn

Joshua Alperin

Gregory Alan Havenga

Greg Havenga

Frank Quintanilla, Iii

Amit K Tiwari

Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying, during a particular boot of an information handling system, basic input/output system (BIOS)-level events, each BIOS-level event associated with a different BIOS log event source; for each BIOS-level event: creating, by a respective driver computing module associated with the BIOS-level event, event data for the BIOS-level event; calling, by the respective driver computing module associated with the BIOS-level event, a dispatcher protocol to provide the event data associated with the respective driver computing module to a dispatcher computing module; placing, by the dispatcher computing module, each of the event data in a temporary data store, wherein each of the event data is unaltered; and creating, by the dispatcher computing module, a database log of the event data, including aggregating each of the event data to generate a sequence of events related to the particular boot of the IHS.

System and method for consolidated BIOS-level event logging

A method may include determining a configuration of one or more basic input/output system (BIOS) settings identified as influencing security at an information handling system. The method may further include determining a security risk score based on the configuration, and generating a security gauge image that provides a visual indication of the security risk score. The security gauge image may be displayed during BIOS initialization at the information handling system.

Security risk indicator and method therefor

A disclosed information handling system is configured to display a consistent logo or image throughout a platform initialization process. In a first-time boot, in a DXE phase, image information is read from firmware storage and processed for native resolution for a display panel and HOB information is saved to firmware volumes with Hand-Off Block (HOB) information. In subsequent iterations of the platform initialization process, the processed image is displayed early in a PEI phase and the HOB information is stored with the processed image. The image is displayed throughout the DXE and BDS phases of each subsequent platform initialization process and the display is consistent for different information handling systems and display panels.

System and method for displaying an image through a platform initialization process

An information handling system includes a non-volatile memory and a processor configured to determine whether a previous boot of the information handling system was successful while booting the information handling system. If the previous boot of the information handling system was successful, then the processor determines whether current configuration settings of the information handling system match most recent known good configuration settings. If the current configuration settings of the information handling system do not match the most recent known good configuration settings, then the current configuration settings are stored as a most recent restore point in the memory.

System and method for automatic recovery of information handling systems

A method may include, during a boot of an information handling system: determining, based on settings stored in non-volatile memory of the information handling system, whether to perform pre-commit execution of a firmware update image prior to committing the firmware update image to a motherboard of the information handling system, and responsive to determining to perform pre-commit execution, load the firmware update image from a basic input/output system partition of a storage resource of the information handling system and execute the firmware update image in lieu of a firmware image stored on the motherboard.

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Carl McAdams