System and method to enable a legacy BIOS system to boot...

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2005-12-20

2005-12-20

Lee, Thomas (Department: 2115)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

C713S002000

Reexamination Certificate

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06978363

ABSTRACT:
A system and a method to boot from a modified GPT partitioned disk with a legacy BIOS based system. The system and method allows for backward compatibility with the new GPT standard. A GPT-aware bootstrap code may be loaded by the legacy BIOS upon system start up.

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