Method for starting an operating system rapidly by pressing a hotkey
OwnerChang-Wen Fu, Dai-Hua Sun +1inventors
InventorsChang-Wen Fu, Dai-Hua Sun, Zhi-Jun Xiang
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Abstract
A method for starting an operating system rapidly by a hotkey includes the steps of: setting a hotkey for each operating system; executing a BIOS power on self test program; determining whether any hotkey has been pressed during execution of the power on self test program; activating a disk partition section which stores an operating system corresponding to a hotkey if the hotkey has been pressed; loading a master boot record; starting the operating system stored in the activated disk partition section.
Claims7
A method for starting an operating system rapidly by pressing a hotkey, the method comprising the steps of:
- setting a hotkey for each operating system;
- executing a BIOS power on self test program;
- determining whether any hotkey has been pressed during execution of the power on self test program;
- activating a disk partition section which stores an operating system corresponding to a hotkey if the hotkey has been pressed;
- loading a master boot record;
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- starting the operating system stored in the activated disk partition section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.