RAM disk boot of optical media image
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsWesley Miller, Saad Syed, Charles T. Lenzmeier
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Abstract
A method includes loading an optical media image representing the content of a physical optical media device from an optical media image source into random access memory (RAM) and emulating the physical optical media device using the optical media image. The optical media image is in an optical media format. A system includes an optical media image stored in random access memory (RAM), the optical media image being in an optical media format, and including operating system (OS) code executable by a microprocessor. A RAM disk program accesses the optical media image according to the optical media format.
Claims32
A method comprising:
- loading an image loader into random access memory (RAM);
- creating, via the image loader, an optical media image in the RAM by copying an optical media content from an optical media source to a location in the RAM, the optical media image being in an optical media format;
- and
- accessing the optical media image in the optical media format via a RAM disk program to emulate the optical media content of the optical media source.
The method comprising:
- downloading an image loader into random access memory (RAM);
- requesting, via the image loader, an optical media content stored in an optical media format, the optical media content containing an operating system code for booting a computer;
- and
- in response to receiving the request, copying the optical media content to the RAM to create an optical media image, the optical media image being in an optical media format.
One or more computer readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform acts comprising:
- loading an image loader into a random access memory (RAM);
- loading an optical media image, via the image loader, from an optical media source to the RAM, the optical media image being in an optical media format;
- and
- emulating the optical media source using the optical media image.
A system comprising:
- an optical media source including an optical media content the optical media content being in an optical media format;
- an image loader stored in a random access memory (RAM), the image loader operable to create an optical media image in the RAM by copying the optical media content from the optical media source to the RAM;
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- a RAM disk program operable to access the optical media image.
A system for booting a computer comprising:
- an optical media source including an optical media content, the optical media content being in an optical media format and including an operating system (OS) code;
- an image loader stored in a random access memory (RAM), the image loader operable to create an optical media image that includes the operating system code in the RAM by copying the optical media content from the optical media source to the RAM;
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- a RAM disk program stored in the RAM, the RAM disk program operable to cause the computer to boot by accessing the optical media image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.