Patents Represented by Attorney Winstead Sechrest & Min
  • Patent number: 7366888
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte. Ltd
    Inventors: Richard Alan Dayan, Joseph Wayne Freeman, William Fred Keown, Jr., Randall Scott Springfield