International Business Machines Corporation

Kerry Alan Lucas

Bruce Gerard Mealey

Richard Louis Arndt

Robert Kimberlin Foster

Jayeshkumar M Patel

Joshua N Poimboeuf

Casey Lee McCreary

Walter Manfred Lipp

Ronald K Criddle

A method and system for providing a computer system having a plurality of logical partitions with a virtual terminal is disclosed. The computer system is coupled to an external display device through a single communications interface. The method and system include allowing the logical partitions to share the communications interface by multiplexing communications to the display device for each of the logical partitions over the communication interface. Windows are displayed on the display device for each of the logical partitions, and the communications from each of the logical partitions is then routed to the corresponding window for display on the display device.

Virtual logical partition terminal

A method and system for unattended boot sequencing is provided. A data processing system is powered on, and a boot mode menu is retrieved and displayed for a user. The user selects a boot mode from the boot mode menu, and the selected boot mode is stored in non-volatile memory. The system boot process is then initiated. At a subsequent point in time, the system boot process is able to execute the boot mode selected by the user. The selected boot mode is retrieved, and the selected boot mode process is then executed. The initial display and selection of a boot mode may be performed by a service processor or service firmware in a multiprocessor system.

Method and system for selection of a boot mode using unattended boot sequencing

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Kerry Alan Lucas