Patent ID: 7877639

Claim:
A method for installing a mass storage device driver service on an internal non-volatile memory (NVM) card in an information handling system including a processor, one or more applications configured to be executed, at least in part, by the processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, a primary internal embedded hypervisor NVM card communicatively coupled to the memory, and a back up embedded hypervisor NVM card communicatively coupled to the memory, the method comprising: (a) determining during boot whether a device of the information handling system is the primary embedded hypervisor NVM card and, if so, installing mass storage device driver service on the device; (b) determining whether a device of the information handling system determined in (a) to be other than the primary embedded hypervisor NVM card is the back up embedded hypervisor NVM card and, if not, installing mass storage device driver service on the device; (c) in response to a determination in (b) that the device is the back up embedded hypervisor NVM card, determining whether the primary embedded hypervisor NVM card is/was detected during Power On Self Test (POST) and, if not, installing mass storage device driver service for the back up embedded hypervisor NVM card and setting flags indicating no redundancy support; and (d) exiting without installing mass storage device driver service in response to a determination in (c) that the primary embedded hypervisor NVM card is/was detected during POST.