Patent ID: 11907071
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 3:
4. A method comprising, in an information handling system comprising a processor and first non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) core comprising BIOS core firmware sufficient to execute features of a BIOS of the information handling system to a particular portion of BIOS execution, wherein the particular portion of BIOS execution includes a security (SEC) phase and a pre-extensible firmware interface (PEI) phase:
identifying and enumerating, with an extension agent embodied on the first non-transitory computer-readable media, a firmware volume of a second non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a BIOS extension comprising BIOS extension firmware for executing completion of BIOS execution from the particular portion of BIOS execution, wherein executing completion of the BIOS includes a driver execution environment (DXE) phase; and
in response to unavailability of the firmware volume of the second non-transitory computer-readable media, failing over to and recovering from, with the extension agent, the BIOS extension from extended firmware information stored on a networked storage resource communicatively coupled to the information handling system.