American Megatrends, Inc.

Will Gysin

Jacob Narey

Subramonian Shankar

A computing device is configured with a single memory device having multiple firmware images stored therein. At a boot time of the computing device, one of the firmware images is selected for use in booting the computing device. The selection of the firmware image to use for booting the computing device might be based upon the state of a hardware jumper, a board revision identifier, a silicon revision identifier, the results of a checksum operation, the presence or absence of one or more peripheral devices, user-specified settings, and/or one or more other factors. Firmware images might be stored in the single memory device in various combinations that include, but are not limited to, a fast-boot firmware, a full functionality firmware, a recovery firmware, a diagnostic firmware, a motherboard-specific firmware, an operating system-specific firmware, a pre-operating system operating environment firmware, an application-specific firmware, and/or a pre-operating system application firmware.

Multiple firmware image support in a single memory device

Technologies for a basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware that can take different boot paths depending on the operating system that a user selects to boot within a computer system are described herein. Each boot path can handle initialization differently based upon the needs of the operating system and overall project design. A method for supporting multiple boot paths on a computer includes receiving a boot path indicator that indicates a boot path to be executed. Once the boot path indicator is received, the boot path corresponding to the boot path indicator is executed and an operating system corresponding to the boot path indicator is booted.

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Jefferson, GA, United States of America

Will Gysin