ABSTRACTION OF COMPUTER DISK IMAGE CLONING CAPABILITIES FROM BOOTABLE MEDIA
摘要
A computer system and computer program product for implementing a method for configuring an improved computing system containing a first computing device. The method includes: creating a logical layer and a physical layer within the first computing device; installing a software operating system (OS) in the logical layer of the first computing device; configuring a first basic input/output system (BIOS) based on installation in the physical layer of the first computing device; relocating all first hardware device drivers for the first hardware devices from an OS image in the logical layer to a first Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) in the physical layer of the first computing device; installing the first BIOS in the physical layer of the first computing device; and loading the first hardware device drivers from the first EEPROM into the first BIOS during a boot phase for the first computing device.
申请公布号
US2012284500(A1)
申请公布日期
2012.11.08
申请号
US201213551698
申请日期
2012.07.18
申请人
ASHWOOD BRETT;BOSS GREGORY JENSEN;HAMILTON, II RICK ALLEN;WATERS TIMOTHY MOFFETT;INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
发明人
ASHWOOD BRETT;BOSS GREGORY JENSEN;HAMILTON, II RICK ALLEN;WATERS TIMOTHY MOFFETT