Recovery images in an operational firmware environment

Details Recovery images in an operational firmware environment Recovery images in an operational firmware environment

2006-11-14

2006-11-14

Lee, Thomas C. (Department: 2115)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C713S001000, C713S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07136994

ABSTRACT:
A method and system to create a recovery image of firmware stored in a firmware storage device of a computer system. A recovery image of firmware is created and stored at a target location, wherein the target location includes a magnetic disk. The firmware storage device to store Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware and/or Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) Data of an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) compliant computer system. In one embodiment, the firmware of the computer system is recovered from the recovery image.

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