Inventors:
Shree A. Dandekar - Round Rock TX, US
Alan E. Beelitz - Leander TX, US
Richard C. Lawrence - Pflugerville TX, US
Paul J. Maia - Cedar Park TX, US
Michael K. Padilla - Round Rock TX, US
Alok Pant - Cedar Park TX, US
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX
International Classification:
G06F 9/00
Abstract:
A method for registering and initiating a pre-boot environment for enabling partitions. The method provides a basic input output system (CIOS) with an application program interface (API) that accesses a Logical Clock Address (LCA) sector number when a boot configuration flag is set, the LCA sector number stores an operating environment manager which then boots the information handling system to an appropriate partition.