Patent ID: 7930533

Claim:
A system for controlling a boot process, comprising: a first processor; and a second processor coupled to the first processor, the first processor and the second processor being disposed in the same enclosure, wherein each of the first processor and the second processor include a boot loader, and wherein the boot loader of the first processor communicates with the second processor to obtain information used for a boot process of the first processor after the first processor initiates the boot process of the first processor, and wherein the boot loader of the second processor communicates with the first processor to obtain information used for a boot process of the second processor after the second processor initiates the boot process of the second processor, wherein the boot process of the first processor includes a pre-execution environment boot process (PXE) and wherein the boot process of the second processor includes a PXE boot process, wherein a particular one of the first processor and the second processor that initiates the PXE boot process is a PXE client and the other one of the first processor and the second processor that communicates the information used in the PXE boot process is a PXE server, and wherein each of the first processor and the second processor is capable of being, respectively, the PXE server and the PXE client.