| 摘要 |
<p>An operating system (22) is loaded into a computer RAM (16) from a solid state storage device (20) connected to an interface (18) and configured as a boot drive. The storage device also includes a boot program (24) and may be used to load the operating system to a plurality of computers. The device may be a CompactFlash card, a Secure Digital card, a memory stick or a Thumbdrive õ . The interface may be a USB, CompactFlash, Firewire, Secure Digital or memory stick I/O interface. A driver may also be provided on the device to adapt the interface to a SCSI. In use, the BIOS of a computer system (14) locates a boot program (60) based on a boot sequence in which the device is the first boot device. A boot program is then loaded (62) and the operating system (22) copied to the computer RAM (16). On completion of copying, control is passed to the operating system (66). If no boot program is found on the external device or the device is not connected the boot sequence looks at the next device in the sequence.</p> |
