Patent ID: 7353376

Claim:
A method for utilizing a single BIOS boot specification (BBS) list in an information handling system, comprising: providing within an information handling system a plurality of bootable BCV (boot connection vector) devices of a first device type and at least one non-BCV device that is an IPL (initial program load) device; analyzing each installed bootable device in the information handling system during system boot to identify each device as a BCV device or as a non-BCV device; for each BCV device, determining a number of drives supported by that BCV device and placing the BCV device within a BCV link; forming a single BBS list including BCV devices and non-BCV devices such that a separate BBS list entry is included for each of the plurality of BCV devices of the first type and for the at least one non-BCV device; booting the system according to a device order set forth in the single BBS list; and if a current boot device is a BCV device, utilizing a drive swizzler as needed to control a link designation for the boot device to make the boot device appear to be a first device in the BCV link to an operating system for the system.