Appeal No. 2001-0164
Application No. 08/885,379
executing a program to sequentially search a plurality of
possible sources of the operating system during a boot-up phase;
when a possible source of the operating system is detected,
having the CPU check to determine whether such detected source is
operational and has a valid boot format;
if the detected source is operational and has a valid boot
format, having the CPU boot the detected operating system source
into the main memory;
if the detected source is either non-operational or does not
have a valid boot format, having the CPU check another one of the
possible operating system sources;
if all sources are checked and none are both operational and
has a valid boot format, having the CPU repeat the aforementioned
sequential search of the possible operating system sources.
References
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
Bealkowski et al. 5,210,875 May 11, 1993
(Bealkowski)
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being
anticipated by Bealkowski.
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