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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2003
Applicants:
Edward Alan Soltis, Elk River, MN (US);
Charles Steven Rissmeyer, Coon Rapids, MN (US);
Inventors:
Edward Alan Soltis, Elk River, MN (US);
Charles Steven Rissmeyer, Coon Rapids, MN (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) boot extension is loaded upon system boot and is operable to store an iSCSI boot disk identifier identifying a remote disk drive to a shared memory location. As an operating system is loaded via iSCSI over a network connection to a remote disk, an operating system iSCSI driver is loaded. The operating system iSCSI driver reads the boot disk identifier stored in the shared memory location and uses the boot disk identifier to configure the operating system.