Disaster recover preparedness with trusted firmware boot method over a smart phone

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause a data processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• detecting a boot failure of the data processing system;
• in response to the boot failure and as part of a startup of the data processing system:
• activating a recovery for the data processing system using a device connectable via a local wireless network, the device being operably connected to an authorization system;
• connecting to the device via the local wireless network for the recovery;
• making a first determination that the device is verified;
• based on the first determination:
• establishing a connection to the authorization system via the device;
• obtaining a signed file from the authorization system;
• making a second determination that a signature of the signed file is verified;
• and
• updating the startup of the data processing system using the file based on the second determination.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a hardware processor adapted to execute a startup management entity configured to perform a boot of the data processing system;
• and
• a management controller configured to:
• detect a boot failure of the data processing system;
• in response to the boot failure and as part of a startup of the data processing system:
• activate a recovery for the data processing system using a device via a local wireless network, the device being operably connected to an authorization system;
• connect to the device via the local wireless network for the recovery;
• make a first determination that the device is verified;
• based on the first determination:
• establish a connection to the authorization system via the device;
• obtain a signed file from the authorization system;
• make a second determination that a signature of the signed file is verified;
• and
• update the startup management entity of the data processing system using the file based on the second determination.