Patent ID: 9417886
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: booting an information handling system; starting a basic input/output system (BIOS) in response to booting the information handling system; storing, by the BIOS, configuration information for the information handling system; retrieving, by an operating system (OS) boot manager, the configuration information; determining, by the OS boot manager, that a first configuration of the information handling system indicated by the configuration information is incompatible with an OS loaded on the information handling system by the OS boot manager, wherein the determining further includes checking for the first configuration in an incompatibilities list of the OS boot manager; determining, by the OS boot manager, that the incompatibility can be mitigated by changing a first setting of the information handling system; changing, by the OS boot manager, the first setting in response to determining that the incompatibility can be mitigated; determining, by the OS boot manager, that a second configuration of the information handling system indicated by the configuration information is not incorrect, and is associated with a boot status of the information handling system; changing, by the OS boot manager, a second setting associated with the second configuration of the information handling system; and launching, by the OS boot manager, the OS in response to changing the first setting.