1. A method for booting-up a computing device, the method comprises: detecting, by a processing module, a boot-up of the computing device; addressing, by the processing module, a distributed basic input/output system (BIOS) memory to retrieve a plurality of error coded BIOS data slices; reconstructing, by the processing module, BIOS data from the plurality of error coded BIOS data slices using an error coding dispersal function; and booting up the computing device in accordance with the BIOS data.