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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1999
Tony G. Kwan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for booting a computer system from a selected disk is provided. The selected disk is one of two or more disks that may be connected to the computer system. The method includes reading into memory a first boot select code and reading into memory master boot record (MBR) sector data from an MBR sector location of a primary disk of the computer system. The method then proceeds to merging partition table information of the MBR sector data with the first boot select code to produce boot select MBR sector data. Then, the method moves to where the boot select MBR sector data is written into the MBR sector location to replace the MBR sector data. The method now proceeds to read a second boot select code into memory and then write it to one or more sectors of the primary disk. The boot select MBR sector data is configured to work with the second boot select code to provide a user the ability to boot from any one of the disks connected to the computer system.