Appeal No. 2000-1260
Application 08/518,852
retrieving a first set of configuration data, the first set
of configuration data having an association between devices and
device drivers;
for each device driver associated with a device in the
retrieved first set of configuration data,
loading the associated device driver; and
initializing the loaded device driver wherein the device
driver returns an indication whether the device driver configured
correctly;
automatically determining without receiving any user input
whether each device driver associated with a device in the
retrieved first set of configuration data initialized properly
based on the returned indications; and
when it is determined that a device driver did not
initialize properly,
retrieving a second set of configuration data, the second
set of configuration data having an association between devices
and device drivers such that, when the second set of
configuration data was previously used when configuring the
computer system, each device driver initialized properly; and
for each device driver associated with a device in the
retrieved second set of configuration data,
loading the associated device driver; and
initializing the loaded device driver.
26. A method for booting a computer system, the computer
system having a computer program and having a first and second
set of configuration data, the first and second set of
configuration data each specifying a configuration for the
computer program, the second set of configuration data being a
set of configuration data that was used when the computer program
was previously booted successfully, the method comprising the
computer-implemented steps of:
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