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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1999
Marc D. Alexander, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A computer system for executing BIOS code on a secure operating system, the computer system including a processor, memory coupled to the processor, at least one nonvolatile storage device, such as a hard disk drive, a BIOS file stored on the nonvolatile storage device, and a computer program executable by the processor wherein the computer program is capable of locating BIOS code within the BIOS file and copying the BIOS code to an executable program file stored on the nonvolatile storage device which is executed by the processor. Also, a method of executing BIOS code on a secure operating system that locates the BIOS code within at least one BIOS file, copies the BIOS code to an executable file, and executes the resulting executable file on a processor.