Patent ID: 9298554
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A An apparatus for booting a processing system, wherein the processing system includes a system memory and at least two memory devices, the at least two memory devices for storing a power-on reset (POR) configuration and a boot loader, the apparatus comprising: an error detector for detecting a failure of a POR configuration fetch operation and a failure of a boot loader fetch operation; and a loader, coupled to the error detector, for fetching a POR configuration from one of the at least two memory devices if a failure in a POR fetch operation from another of the at least two memory devices has been detected, and for fetching a boot loader from one of the at least two memory devices if a failure in a boot loader fetch operation from another of the at least two memory devices has been detected, and for transferring the fetched boot loader from the one of the at least two memory devices to the system memory.