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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2007
Rod David Waltermann, Rougemont, NC (US);
Nathan J. Peterson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph Wayne Freeman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Randall Scott Springfield, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mark Charles Davis, Durham, NC (US);
Steven Dale Goodman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Isaac Kareel, Cary, NC (US);
Scott Edwards Kelso, Durham, NC (US);
Rod David Waltermann, Rougemont, NC (US);
Nathan J. Peterson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph Wayne Freeman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Randall Scott Springfield, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mark Charles Davis, Durham, NC (US);
Steven Dale Goodman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Isaac Kareel, Cary, NC (US);
Scott Edwards Kelso, Durham, NC (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A method for booting into computer memory a non-operating system (O.S.) program from a hard disk drive (HDD) prior to booting into memory an O.S. from the HDD. The method includes establishing a table of contents (TOC) on the HDD that contains entries for special O.S. programs. A pointer to the TOC is placed in non-volatile memory of the computer that is associated with the HDD, and when BIOS of the computer is prompted to load into memory one of the special O.S. programs, the pointer is accessed and used to locate the TOC, which in turn is accessed to load the special O.S. program.