Self-healing using an alternate boot partition

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9459884
APP PUB NO 20150378746A1
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14848138

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Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that enable a computer system comprising networked computers to self-heal from a boot failure of one of the computers. In some embodiments, upon detecting a first computer failing to successfully load a first boot image, a second computer configures the first computer to boot a second boot image. Upon power cycling, the first computer loads the second boot image.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Friedman, Alex Herzliya, IL 37 680
Gavrilov, Constantine Rishon-Le-Zion, IL 57 506

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