Patent ID: 7210033
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling multi-segmented recovery of Basic Input Output System (BIOS) program code in a computer system, the method comprising: (a) retrieving a program file comprising BIOS code for the computer system as a current program file; (b) comparing the size of the current program file to the size of a current BIOS image in the computer system; (c) if the size of the current program file is smaller than the size of the current BIOS image, then retrieving a next program file; (d) increasing the size of the current program file to include the size of the next program file; (e) repeating the operations (b)–(d) until the size of the current program file is equivalent to the size of the current BIOS image in the computer system; and (f) initiating recovery of the BIOS code from the current program file.