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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2016
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Fred Allison Bower, III, Durham, NC (US);
Ajay Dholakia, Morrisville, NC (US);
Scott Kelso, Cary, NC (US);
Gregory B. Pruett, Raleigh, NC (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park, SG;
Abstract
At power on of a computing device, a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the computing device executes, a first-stage bootloader program to download a second-stage bootloader program from a first server. The BMC executes the second-stage bootloader program to download third-stage firmware of the BMC from a second server. The BMC executes the third-stage firmware to download firmware of a primary processing subsystem of the computing device from a third server, and to start the primary processing subsystem by causing the primary processing subsystem to execute the firmware of the primary processing subsystem.