Storage failover protocol for secure and seamless extended firmware load

An article of manufacture comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• computer-executable instructions carried on the computer-readable medium, the instructions readable by a processor, the instructions, when read and executed, for causing the processor to, in an information handling system comprising first non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) core comprising BIOS core firmware sufficient to execute features of a BIOS of the information handling system to a particular portion of BIOS execution, wherein the particular portion of BIOS execution includes a security (SEC) phase and a pre-extensible firmware interface (PEI) phase:
• identify and enumerate, with an extension agent embodied on the first non-transitory computer-readable media, a firmware volume of a second non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a BIOS extension comprising BIOS extension firmware for executing completion of BIOS execution from the particular portion of BIOS execution, wherein executing completion of the BIOS includes a driver execution environment (DXE) phase;
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• in response to unavailability of the firmware volume of the second non-transitory computer-readable media, failover to and recover from, with the extension agent, the BIOS extension from extended firmware information stored on a networked storage resource communicatively coupled to the information handling system.