METHOD FOR SWITCHING BOOTING DEVICES OF A COMPUTER

摘要

The present invention provides a method for switching booting devices of a computer ( 10 ). The method includes the steps of: powering on the computer, and executing basic input/output system power on self test (BIOS POST) program; trying to boot the computer from a primary booting device ( 14 ); reading a boot program ( 151 ) of a secondary booting device ( 15 ) into a particular portion of a memory ( 12 ) of the computer; determining whether the boot program of the secondary booting device is valid for normal booting of the computer; executing the boot program of the secondary booting device, if the boot program of the secondary booting device is valid for normal booting of the computer; and booting the computer from the secondary booting device. A related computer is also provided.