Patent ID: 7590838

Claim:
A remote boot method comprising the steps of: loading an image of an operating system from a first file apparatus that is coupled to a computer system to a main memory of the computer system and starting the operating system; remotely specifying an image of a second file apparatus that is coupled to the computer system, as an image of a boot target, from a system monitoring mechanism of the computer system, instead of specifying the image of the second file apparatus from a boot firmware; and including boot information in variables managed by the boot firmware and the system monitoring mechanism, in order to specify the second file apparatus that is the boot target and is managed by the boot firmware by a remote boot specified from the system monitoring mechanism, wherein the boot information includes device path information indicating a location where the second file apparatus is coupled to the computer system, and information related to a file position and a file name of an operating system loader, and wherein the boot firmware and the operating system loader are located into the main memory.