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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshimitsu Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713-1 ;
Abstract
If a boot device is a CD-ROM drive, whether a CD-ROM medium is loaded in the CD-ROM drive is checked. When no medium is loaded, a tray open command is issued to the CD-ROM drive to automatically open the tray before starting a boot process from another device such as an HDD. When the user sets the CD-ROM medium on the tray and closes the tray, the bootstrap of an operating system from the CD-ROM medium is executed.