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Boot recovery of simple boot BIOS

  • US 6,640,316 B1
  • Filed: 05/23/2000
  • Issued: 10/28/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for performing a boot for a computer system, comprising:

  • evaluating the contents of a diagnostics indicator to determine whether the diagnostics indicator contains a simple boot value;

    if the diagnostics indicator contains the simple boot value, determining whether at least one platform corruption has occurred;

    if the diagnostics indicator contains the simple boot value and the at least one platform corruption has not occurred, executing a simple boot routine; and

    otherwise, executing at least one diagnostic routine.

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