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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2007
Carol B. Hernandez, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen D. Linam, Austin, TX (US);
John T. O'quin, Ii, Austin, TX (US);
Mark W. Wenning, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Carol B. Hernandez, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen D. Linam, Austin, TX (US);
John T. O'Quin, II, Austin, TX (US);
Mark W. Wenning, Cedar Park, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is added to a network support package to enable/allow the specification of additional boot discovery protocols and additional network address formats. The mechanism defines qualifier keywords that are added to the boot arguments and processed by the network support package. The qualifier keywords modify the boot arguments associated with a bootstrap method by specifying a way to acquire the arguments (i.e., a specific boot discovery protocol), the format of the arguments, and other parameters associated with the arguments. Multiple qualifier keywords may be added to the boot arguments at a time, and the keywords can be applied in their order within the arguments.