Patent ID: 8966236
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: enabling, by a computing device, dynamic redirection of booting of the computing device; determining, by the computing device, whether a portable storage device is present on the computing device; responsive to determining the portable storage device is present, determining, by the computing device, whether the portable storage device is an allowable storage device from which to boot the computing device; and responsive to determining the portable storage device is an allowable storage device, dynamically redirecting, by the computing device, booting of the computing device to an operating system stored on the portable storage device without manual modifications to a boot module that includes a programmed linear boot order, the dynamically redirecting booting of the computing device comprising programmatically issuing commands to the computing device's platform firmware effective to add a boot entry associated with the portable storage device.