Patent ID: 11922177
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a processor;
a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) network stack; and
a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable on the processor to:
during startup of the system:
execute a UEFI shell that provides an output for a display device,
identify a location of a startup script,
request, by the UEFI shell, the startup script at the identified location over a network using a secure transfer network protocol of the UEFI network stack,
receive, over the network, the startup script, and
download commands comprising a boot command to the UEFI shell to add functionality to the UEFI shell, wherein, after the downloading of the commands, the UEFI shell comprises the boot command, and wherein the boot command when invoked downloads an image comprising a bootstrap program to a memory of the system, the bootstrap program for booting the system.