Patent ID: 8612800

Claim:
A computing device comprising: a processor; and at least one memory device operationally coupled with the processor, wherein the at least one memory device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to: determine that a recovery mode procedure is to be executed on the computing device; determine whether a trusted recovery image is accessible to the computing device; in the event the trusted recovery image is accessible to the computing device, execute the recovery mode procedure to repair or replace a current image of the computing device using the trusted recovery image; and in the event the trusted recovery image is not accessible to the computing device: provide instructions for obtaining the trusted recovery image; determine that the obtained trusted recovery image is accessible to the computing device; and execute the recovery mode procedure to repair or replace the current image of the computing device using the obtained trusted recovery image, the at least one memory device including a firmware device, the firmware device having a boot log portion included in a read-write portion of the firmware device.