Booting from a remote BIOS image

An article of manufacture comprising:

• a machine-accessible recordable/non-recordable medium that stores a plurality of instructions which when executed perform operations comprising:
• intercepting a request for a local Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) image of a computer system during a pre-boot phase of the computer system;
• retrieving a remote BIOS image for the computer system from a remote computer system communicatively coupled to the computer system during the pre-boot phase;
• intercepting a write request to a non-volatile storage of the computer system;
• and
• sending a remote BIOS image update to the remote computer system based on the wnte request.

A computer system, comprising:

• a flash memory device having stored a local Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) image for the computer system;
• and
• a controller operatively coupled to the flash memory device, the controller including:
• a processor;
• a controller network interface operatively coupled to the processor;
• and
• a non-volatile storage operatively coupled to the processor, the non-volatile storage including firmware instructions which when executed by the processor perform operations comprising:
• intercepting a request to the flash memory device for the local BIOS image;
• retrieving a remote BIOS image for the computer system from a server communicatively coupled to the computer system at the controller network interface;
• intercepting a write request to a non-volatile storage of the computer system;
• and
• sending a remote BIOS image update to the remote computer system based on the write request.