Patent ID: 7734945
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-storage medium having computer executable instructions for performing steps of recovering from boot failure of a target operating system on a computer system comprising: determining an occurrence of the boot failure; launching a recovery environment, the recovery environment including a host operating system and a diagnostic and recovery system (DRS) executing under the host operating system, wherein the DRS includes a diagnostic engine and a decision and recovery engine, and wherein the host operating system is separate from the target operating system; identifying, by the diagnostic engine, a root cause of the boot failure, including: in response to the identification of the root cause, identifying, by the decision and recovery engine, a plurality of recovery actions associated with the root cause, including: creating a priority of the probable recovery actions based on the likelihood of correcting the root problem; displaying the probable recovery action in priority order; allowing a selection of probable recovery actions to be executed; and sequentially and separately executing each of the selected probable recovery actions, starting with a highest priority probable recovery, until the computer system is able to boot successfully.