Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Hiroaki Yago

Tomohiro Suzuki

Tetsuya Ishikawa

Tomoya Ogawa

Fumikage Uchida

Munetoshi Eguchi

If a defect flag stored in a CFwhile a BIOS is being booted, an information processing deviceboots a second program stored in an external deviceconnected to a connection section, and if the defect flag is not detected, the information processing deviceconfirms whether or not the first program is bootable. If the first program is confirmed to be bootable, the first program is booted and if not, the defect flag is set in the CFand the power of the information processing apparatusis turned off.

Information processing apparatus and program

An information processing apparatus including: a first recording medium which stores a first program; a connection section which is capable of connecting to a second recording medium outside of the information processing apparatus; an instruction input section to input, while the information processing apparatus is in an activated state, an instruction for booting a second program stored in the second recording medium that is connected to the connection section on booting of the BIOS; and a controller which, performs a check when booting of a BIOS, if the second recording medium is connected and the instruction has been input while the information processing apparatus is in an activated state; in case when the second recording medium is connected and the instruction has been input is confirmed, the control section boots the second program; and in case when it is not confirmed, the control section boots the first program.

An information processing apparatus including: a first recording medium which stores a first program; a connection section which is capable of connecting with a second recording medium from outside; and a controller which determines, during BIOS boot-up operation, whether or not the connection section is connected with the second recording medium which stores predetermined authentication information, and if connected, boots a second program stored in the second recording medium, while if not connected, boots the first program stored in the first recording medium.

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Hiroaki Yago