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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1997
Roger Philip Hoggarth, Ayrshire, GB;
Richard Ian Knox, Bridge of Weir, GB;
Andrew Liam Massey, Ayrshire, GB;
Colin David McCall, Renfrewshire, GB;
Sohail Syyed, Glasgow, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods of booting a client data processing system attached to a control data processing system in a data processing network. At power-on or re-boot of a client system, an initial program load request is issued from the client system onto the network and responsive to the receipt of the initial program load request at the control system, bootstrap code is transferred to the client to cause the client to boot from operating system code stored on a mass storage device of the client; alternatively, bootstrap code is transferred to the client system to cause the client to boot from operating system stored on a mass storage device of the client, or bootstrap code is transferred to cause the client system to boot from the control system.