Patent ID: 11907071

Abstract:
An information handling system may include a processor and first non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) core comprising BIOS core firmware sufficient to execute features of a BIOS of the information handling system to a particular portion of BIOS execution and an extension agent. The extension agent may be configured to identify and enumerate a firmware volume of a second non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a BIOS extension comprising BIOS extension firmware for executing completion of BIOS execution from the particular portion of BIOS execution and in response to unavailability of the firmware volume of the second non-transitory computer-readable media, failover to and recover the BIOS extension from extended firmware information stored on a networked storage resource communicatively coupled to the information handling system.