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US 2006/0218388 A1Published application
Method and system for iSCSl boot
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsUri Zur, Kan Fan, Murali Rajagopal, Kevin Tran
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AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsUri Zur, Kan Fan, Murali Rajagopal, Kevin Tran
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Certain aspects of a method for iSCSI boot may include loading boot BIOS code from a host bus adapter or a network interface controller (NIC) by an iSCSI client device. A connection may be established to an iSCSI target by the iSCSI client device after loading the boot BIOS code. The boot BIOS code may be chained to at least one interrupt handler over iSCSI protocol. An operating system may be remotely booted from the iSCSI target by the iSCSI client device based on chaining the interrupt handler. An Internet protocol (IP) address and/or location of the iSCSI target may be received. At least one iSCSI connection may be initiated to the iSCSI target based on chaining at least one interrupt handler. The iSCSI target may be booted in real mode if at least one master boot record is located in the memory.
A method for performing an iSCSI boot operation, the method comprising:
A machine-readable storage having stored thereon, a computer program having at least one code section for performing an iSCSI boot operation, the at least one code section being executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform steps comprising:
A system for performing an iSCSI boot operation, the system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.