Hardware-based boot manager for switching among bootable storage systems has switch for connecting selected storage unit

摘要

The hardware boot manager (1) has a multi-way input connection (3) for connection to the internal data bus, and two or more multi-way connections (4,5) for connecting to storage units, such as hard discs, which form at least one bootable storage system. A multi-way switching device (2) is provided to allow the user to switch the input connection to a selected output connection (4,5).