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US 2021/0240488 A1Published application
Bios boot and update failover process
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsShekar Babu Suryanarayana, Sumanth Vidyadhara
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AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsShekar Babu Suryanarayana, Sumanth Vidyadhara
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A BIOS boot and update failover process is provided. A computing system can include flash storage on which the BIOS is stored, an embedded controller and an NVMe drive. After the BIOS successfully performs a boot process, a failover module can be executed to create a BIOS namespace on an NVMe namespace and then store a copy of the BIOS on the NVMe namespace. The failover module can also create a device path that identifies where the copy of the BIOS is stored on the NVMe namespace and store the device path on the embedded controller. The embedded controller can be configured to detect when the BIOS on the flash storage fails to initiate a subsequent boot process and, in response, employ the device path to locate and load the copy of the BIOS from the NVMe namespace to thereby cause the computing system to be booted.
A method for booting a computing system comprising:
A computing system comprising:
One or more computer storage media storing computer executable instructions which when executed on a computing system implement a method comprising:
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