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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2001
Richard Alan Dayan, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Joseph Wayne Freeman, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Fred Keown, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Randall Scott Springfield, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Richard Alan Dayan, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Joseph Wayne Freeman, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Fred Keown, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Randall Scott Springfield, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Lenovo Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A system, computer program product and method for booting to a partition in a non-volatile storage unit without a local operator. In one embodiment, one or more bits in a BOOT register may be set by an operating system indicating if the BIOS should boot to the partition. The BIOS may then read the BOOT register to determine if the BIOS is to boot to the partition as well as any activities to perform if the BIOS is to boot to the partition. In another embodiment, a network interface card may insert directive information received from a packet in a register within the network interface card. The BIOS may then read the register within the network interface card to determine if the BIOS is to boot to the partition as well as any activities to perform if the BIOS is to boot to the partition.