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US 2015/0317165 A1Published application
Live initialization of a boot device
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAlex FRIEDMAN, Constantine GAVRILOV, Artemy VOIKHANSKY
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are provided that include executing, by a processor, a software stack received from a first boot image, and retrieving and executing, by the processor, a second software stack. A writeable boot device such as a storage device with a removable medium is detected, and the second software stack is saved by replacing, on the writeable boot device, the first boot image with a second boot image comprising the second software stack.
Claims6
A method comprising:
- executing, by a processor, a first software stack retrieved from a first boot image;
- retrieving and executing, by the processor, a second software stack;
- detecting a writeable boot device coupled to the processor;
- and
- saving the second software stack by replacing, on the writeable boot device, the first boot image with a second boot image comprising the second software stack.
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