Disabling software persistence
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsValiuddin Ali, Richard Bramley
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Abstract
An example computing device includes a storage device, a random-access memory, a read only memory, and a processor. The processor is to determine, during a booting process, whether an operating system being booted is a primary operating system, in response to a determination that the operating system being booted is different from the primary operating system, determine whether the operating system being booted satisfies a first criteria, and, in response to a determination that the operating system being booted fails to satisfy the first criteria, disable software persistence.
Claims15
A computing device comprising:
- a storage device;
- a random-access memory;
- a read only memory;
- and
- a processor to:
- determine, during a booting process, whether an operating system being booted is a primary operating system;
- in response to a determination that the operating system being booted is different from the primary operating system, determine whether the operating system being booted satisfies a first criteria;
- and
- in response to a determination that the operating system being booted fails to satisfy the first criteria, disable software persistence.
A computing device comprising:
- a storage device;
- a random-access memory;
- a read only memory;
- and
- a processor to:
- determine, during a booting process, whether information of an operating system being booted matches information of an operating system last used to boot the computing device;
- in response to a determination that the information of the operating system being booted fails to match the information of the operating system last used to boot the computing device, determine if the information of the operating system being booted is compatible with software persistence;
- and
- in response to a determination that the information of the operating system being booted is incompatible with the software persistence, disable the software persistence.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions to determine a primary operating system of a computing device;
- instructions to determine whether an operating system being booted is the primary operating system of the computing device;
- instructions to determine whether the operating system being booted satisfies a first criteria;
- and
- instructions to, in response to a determination that the operating system being booted is other than the primary operating system or fails to satisfy the first criteria, disable software persistence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.