Patent ID: 6158002
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for booting from a desired peripheral device that is connected to a computer system having a floppy disk drive, comprising:inserting a floppy media into the floppy disk drive of the computer system;turning ON the computer system to enable a system BIOS of the computer system;executing a boot code stored on the floppy media, the boot code being configured to scan a number of buses of the computer system to identify host adapters that are connected to respective ones of the number of buses;executing a BIOS code for each of the host adapters which causes an assignment of drive numbers to peripheral devices connected to the host adapters;rearranging the drive numbers assigned to the peripheral devices in order to assign 80h to the desired peripheral device; andbooting the computer system from the desired peripheral device.