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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2021
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Craig L. Chaiken, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Siva Subramaniam Rajan, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An information handling system may include a processor and a basic input/output system (BIOS) comprising a program of instructions executable on the processor, the basic input/output system configured to, upon occurrence of a predetermined number of failures to complete a power-on/self-test (POST) of the information handling system: for each particular critical boot variable of the BIOS stored in a memory associated with the BIOS, read a backup variable for the particular critical boot variable, if available, and write a value of the backup variable as the critical boot variable; and attempt to reboot the information handling system with values of the backup variables used for the critical boot variables.