This disclosure generally relate to remote booting of a computing system. The present technology relates techniques that can enable deploying boot parameters to one or more booting servers in a scalable and autonomous approach. A service controller can receive and transmit a boot sequence and/or boot configuration to other computing components, such as a BIOS or a host bus adapter. The service controller can transmit boot information by a system interface called a keyboard controller style interface.

System and method for network-based iscsi boot parameter deployment

The invention discloses a method for achieving an EXT file system based on UEFI firmware, and belongs to the technical field of computer firmware. The method comprises the following steps that a driver of an EXT is loaded through the UEFI firmware, an entry function of the driver runs, and a communication protocol Protocol of an EFI drive binding protocol type is installed on the entry function of the EXT driver; all block devices in the EXT are searched for through the UEFI firmware, and after one block device is sought, whether the block device has DiskIo Protocol or not is judged; if yes, whether a file system in the current block device is an EXT file system or not is judged; if yes, the global variable needed by the EXT driver is initialized, a Protocal of an EFI simple file system protocol type is installed for the Start function, and an access interface function OpenVolume of the file system is provided for the outside; UEFI firmware or other drivers acquire an operation interface function having access to the EXT file system through OpenVolume. Thus, the EXT file system based on the UEFI firmware is achieved.

Method for achieving EXT file system based on UEFI firmware

The invention provides a PXE (Pre-boot Execution Environment)-based operation system processing method and apparatus. The PXE-based operation system processing method comprises the steps of receiving a processing instruction, wherein the processing instruction comprises an identifier of a to-be-processed server; obtaining a source file used for processing an operation system and corresponding to the identifier; performing formatting processing on the source file to obtain a formatted script file, and sending the script file to the to-be-processed server based on a PXE network; and compiling the script file based on the PXE network by the to-be-processed server, thereby performing automatic processing on the operation system. Through the method and the apparatus, the server can be booted to perform automated system processing, the automated processing effect of the server is improved, and the user experience is enhanced.

PXE (Pre-boot Execution Environment)-based operation system processing method and apparatus

The invention discloses an operating system installation method and device. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a dynamic host configuration protocol DHCP message sent by a computing device of an operating system to be installed, wherein the DHCP message comprises a device identification of the computing device of the operating system to be installed; according to the device identification of the computing device to be installed with the operating system, searching for the corresponding PXE boot program; sending a DHCP response message to a computing device of an operating system to be installed, wherein the DHCP response message comprises an IP address assigned to the computing device of the operating system to be installed and an address of a found PXE boot program for the computing device of the operating system to be installed to download the PXE boot program; when the PXE bootstrap program is executed on the computing device to be installed with the operating system, the PXE bootstrap program guiding the computing device to be installed with the operating system to complete the installation of the corresponding operating system. Therefore, the automatic installation of the required system for the equipment is realized without manual intervention, the IT operation and maintenance cost is saved, and the work efficiency is improved.

An operating system installation method and device

A method for remotely launching a deployment utility includes booting up a server and performing a power-on self-test (POST). The server determines a location of the deployment utility stored on a remote server. The server retrieves the deployment utility from the remote server, based on the location, and executes the deployment utility

Remote launch of deploy utility

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for a boot mapping system. More specifically, in certain embodiments, BIOS of an information handling system includes a boot mapping system which allows the information handling system to boot up regardless of a boot order change in a network mode of operation or a BIOS boot order change. Additionally, in certain embodiments, the boot mapping system further includes a service location protocol (SLP) which locates operating system images based on the type of network protocol selected for deployment.

Mark W. Shutt

Papers

System and method to perform an OS boot using service location protocol and launching OS using a dynamic update of network boot order without a reboot