98 results about "Boot disk" patented technology

A Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) boot extension is loaded upon system boot and is operable to store an iSCSI boot disk identifier identifying a remote disk drive to a shared memory location. As an operating system is loaded via iSCSI over a network connection to a remote disk, an operating system iSCSI driver is loaded. The operating system iSCSI driver reads the boot disk identifier stored in the shared memory location and uses the boot disk identifier to configure the operating system.

A method restores a client device of a network on major failure of the client device. The client device is incapable of automatically booting on its own. The network includes a server computer. The method includes booting the client device over the network in the restoration operation, configuring the client device according to the boot program and saved configuration states for the client device, and copying files to the client device in accordance with the configuration. The client computer has access to a storage manager application, such as a server computer of the network operating a storage management software program. All client files, including configuration files, as well as application and data files, of the client device are saved on the network by the storage manager application. The client device is booted over the network, rather than locally to the client device by boot disk or otherwise. The boot program is loaded to the client device, and the client device retrieves configuration and file information over the network from the storage manager application. The client device configures its disk according to the configuration information, and then all other files and data of the client device at the time of failure of the client device are saved on the disk substantially in the condition and state just prior to the failure and as most recently backed up to the storage manager application. Alternatively, the client device is reset and booted via a control device either locally or otherwise connected to the client device, and substantially according to the method of the network boot.

The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality of virtual servers run, a single standby server, a module for detecting an active virtual server, and a module for switching the correspondence of boot disks of virtualization modules for controlling virtual servers to the physical servers. When a physical server fails, the boot disk of the associated virtualization module is connected to a spare server to automatically activate on the spare server those virtual servers which have been active upon occurrence of the failure.

In a computer system wherein plural servers are connected with an external disk device via a network, each server incorporates therein a logic partition module for configuring at least one logic partition in the server, and the operating system stored in the logic partition is booted by the boot disk of an external disk device, the failover operation is performed only for the logic partition affected by a failure when the task being executed by a working server is taken over by another server at the time of the failure occurring in the working server.

In a computer system in which a server has, in addition to a disk used for booting, an operation transfer destination disk that has the same content as the boot disk, a method for changing the disk used by the server or another server in the computer system for booting to the operation transfer destination disk is realized by changing the content of the operation transfer destination disk to enable the OS and applications installed in the operation transfer destination disk to be booted from the destination disk and by changing the setting of a boot program of the server to enable booting from the operation transfer destination disk.

Described is a technology by which a single physical storage device such as a USB flash memory device is able to boot different computing devices via corresponding different operating systems. The storage device includes a selection mechanism that determines which virtual disk (corresponding to a LUN) is seen by the host as the currently active LUN having sector 0, and therefore is the boot disk. The selection mechanism also may select which (if any) other LUNs are visible to the host. The selection mechanism and accompanying indicator may be operated when the storage device is disconnected, e.g., via manual switches and / or LEDs, buttons and / or a display (e.g., via internal power). Also described is allowing each LUN to have a user-friendly name.

A deploy target computer is connected to a storage device including a replication source logical disk used to store a boot disk image. A disk mapping processing part in the deploy target computer changes over access destination so as to set the access destination to the replication source logical disk in the storage device when an I / O request is issued from the deploy target computer to the storage device and the I / O request specifies reading the boot disk image, and so as to set the access destination to a replication destination logical disk for conducting writing concerning the boot disk image when the I / O request specifies writing concerning the boot disk image.

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for the remote installation of software from one or more central locations to a plurality of remote machines. A centralized database, remote to the user, is maintained that includes characteristics of users and / or their machines. An image of a computer program, such as an operating system, is maintained at a location that is remote to the user / machine. Image information is accessed from within the database to configure the program. The image is downloaded to a destination machine on a medium that also includes a utility for installing the image at the destination machine. The medium is used to install the program at the destination, and automatically configures the program using configuration settings that are also imaged on the medium, and that are maintained at the database. Thus, a boot disk is provided that is only used for the installation process.

A system, apparatus and method for supporting multiple file systems in boot code of a computer. The boot code according to the present invention first identifies file systems used by a boot disk and then identifies operating systems associated with the identified file systems. Based on the identified operating systems, the boot sector for an appropriate operating system is located and loaded. Thereafter, the boot code relinquishes control to the loaded operating system. The boot code is capable of supporting multiple file systems, multiple operating systems located in a plurality of partitions of a boot disk, and multiple operating systems using the same file system.

In a computer system wherein plural servers are connected with an external disk device via a network, each server incorporates therein a logic partition module for configuring at least one logic partition in the server, and the operating system stored in the logic partition is booted by the boot disk of an external disk device, the failover operation is performed only for the logic partition affected by a failure when the task being executed by a working server is taken over by another server at the time of the failure occurring in the working server.

The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality of virtual servers run, a single standby server, a module for detecting an active virtual server, and a module for switching the correspondence of boot disks of virtualization modules for controlling virtual servers to the physical servers. When a physical server fails, the boot disk of the associated virtualization module is connected to a spare server to automatically activate on the spare server those virtual servers which have been active upon occurrence of the failure.

The present invention enables to update a program in a storage control device while processing access requests, without imposing any burden on a host. When execution of updating of a program is commanded from a management terminal, an update control unit starts within the controller which is the object of updating. After a host I / F unit has been connected to an access request processing unit within another controller by a connection control unit, the update control unit updates a program which is stored in a program memory or a boot disk. When this updating is completed, the update control unit reconnects the host I / F unit to its access processing unit by the connection control unit. Since the stored contents of data memories are synchronized, the other access request processing unit can continue processing access requests from the host in place one access request processing unit.

The invention discloses a method and a device for establishing a storage cache shared by virtual machine. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining data reading (writing) from a virtual boot disk when a virtual machine is starting, and storing the data into a shared cache device of the virtual machine, and thus other virtual machines can read the data from the shared cache device of the virtual when starting. By the adoption of the above manner, very little space is used for caching only effective data in the starting of the virtual machine, and thus the input and output problem when the virtual machines read and write the data concurrently.

In one embodiment, a method includes replicating data in a storage disk. The method also includes storing the data in an Internet Protocol Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) boot disk that is associated with a diskless iSCSI server. A part of the data, which is related to a device on which the data is executed, is updated during the storing of the data in the iSCSI boot disk.

When a server RM detects a failure in an operating server, a system resource manager selects a substitute server from a pool of a server domain to which a failed server belongs, based on information in a system resource DB, disconnects the failed server from a business network and a storage sub group and moves the failed server to a pool, and permits the substitute server to access a storage group to which the failed server had an access and to connect to the business network to which the failed server was connected, to boot up the substitute server from a SAN.

The invention discloses a method for deploying and upgrading a Linux system. The method comprises the steps of: arranging and configuring a Linux system in a first computer system, and installing an application program required by an objective computer system; starting the objective computer system by utilizing a staring disc of the Linux system; determining an objective medium of the objective computer system, calculating the different data between a file in the objet medium and a file in the first computer system and transmitting the different data to the objective medium from the first computer system through network connection between the first computer system and the objective computer system; and restarting the objective computer system by virtue of a starting code on the objective medium after the objective computer system is closed. Through the application scheme provided by the invention, various operation environments based on a Linux operation system can be deployed quickly in a centralized and batched manner, so that the maintaining work is greatly reduced, and the production efficiency of a department is improved.

The invention provides an installation method and system of operating systems. The installation method includes: initializing a server by a boot loader in a first guide medium, storing a control program and a core file system database in the first guide medium, into the server, and triggering execution of the control program in a memory of the server; allowing the control program to receive configuration parameters, operating system type and version and to generate a configuration file according to the configuration parameters, operating system type and version, acquiring an operating system file, storing the configuration file and the operating system file into a hard disk partition of the server, setting the hard disk partition as a startup disk, and guiding the server to restart from the startup disk; allowing the startup disk to prepare an installation environment according to the configuration file and the operating system file, acquiring an operating system installer from a second guide medium, and installing an operating system for the server. The configuration file is dynamically generated according to the configuration parameters, operating system type and version, so that personal installation requirements are met.

A disk access system switching device is interposed between a first driver accessing an OS boot disk by use of a first disk access system, a second driver accessing by use of a second disk access system capable of accessing the disk faster than by the first disk access system, and a high-order driver issuing disk access commands to the first and second drivers, wherein the disk access command received from the high-order driver with respect to the boot disk directed to the first driver is transferred to the first driver before an end of initializing the second driver, and the disk access command received from the high-order driver with respect to the boot disk directed to the first driver is transferred to the second driver when detecting the end of initialization of the second driver.

The present disclosure provides an operating system installation method and apparatus, and a server, and relates to the technical field of operating system installation. The method comprises that: aninstallation tool generates an automatically installed system configuration file according to obtained system parameters of a server of a to-be-installed operating system; the installation tool carries out formatting and partition operations on the target disk according to the BIOS startup mode of the server, and copies the obtained image file, the boot file and the system configuration file to acorresponding partition of the target disk; and the installation tool sets the boot disk of the server as the target disk, so as to retrieve the system configuration file and install the operating system after the server is restarted. According to the operating system installation method and apparatus, and the server provided by the present invention, a highly automated operating system installation function is realized, so that not only the operation steps are simplified, but also the labor costs are improved.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a computer system startup disk, and the manufacturing method is suitable for various types of storage equipment provided with disk partition tables. A target disk is partitioned in a conventional mode and provided with an active partition, and besides, any one original or logic partition in the disk is further divided into two or more storage areas which are used independently; the data storage format of one storage area is consistent with the type of the original partition; specific storage formats are used for the rest of the storage areas. By modifying the content of a main sector, the content of a reserved sector and the content of a hidden area, a guide control program and a main menu are added to the disk, each area is configured with a system startup function and a menu corresponding to the corresponding area by means of an existing startup function or grldr and deformation of the grldr of the original active partition, namely, one or more menus capable of being operated by a user are provided, and a system can be started up from any one area. When any one storage area or startup mode is damaged, the guide control program will automatically select bootable system loading, and therefore the user can have the available operating system at any moment.

A method for realizing multi-user to the same set of computer in isolated mode includes erecting shared data information of all users at start-up disc on one of start-up disc among a numbers of start-up discs on computer and setting computer state at this moment to be reference protection point corresponding to said start-up disc, creating new account information under said state and setting computer state at this moment to be new protection point.

The invention provides a method for debugging a blade server in parallel. The method includes hardware and software. The hardware is a starting universal serial bus (USB) flash disk. The software includes mirror images compressed through general hardware oriented software transfer (GHOST) software, a disk operation system (DOS) and the GHOST software. The mirror images comprise Windows Server 2003 enterprise edition installation source files, burnintest, HD tune, memtest pressure test software, BIOS and BMC refreshing program, script control program autoexec.bat, operation system automatic installation control program autoOS.bat and test software automatic installation operation control program autotest.bat.

A system of testing a computer includes at least a computer (10) to be tested and a testing server (60) that connects to the computer. The testing server has test scripts for testing the computer. The system of testing the computer further includes a bootable disk (20) that connects to the computer. The bootable disk includes a testing image for starting up the computer. A method of testing a computer based on the testing system includes steps as follows: connecting the bootable disk to the computer to startup the computer; downloading test scripts from the testing server to the computer; running the test scripts and testing the computer.

A computer utility for reducing downtime required for applying patches to a UNIX system, and for allowing changes to the system to be rolled back in the event of problems with a patch.

An apparatus and method for controlling a disk drive is provided. A disk lubricant sweep component for periodically initiates a disk lubricant spreading action. A disk data read check component checks data at one or more LBAs during the disk lubricant sweep. The apparatus may cache data from LBAs that have been checked by the disk data read check component and found correct and record LBAs that have been found correct, so that they can be omitted from subsequent operation of the read check component. The apparatus may further comprise an error checking and correcting component for checking and correcting data found incorrect by reason of a soft error, and an error reporting component for reporting on one or more LBAs that have been checked and found incorrect by reason of a hard error.

A booting procedure can take a long time and typically starts from a lead-in on a main data layer of an optical data disc. A Portable-Blue (PB) disc, a dual boot disc, includes a second data layer (304) from which application specific optical drives can boot directly. The dual boot disc still conforms to the prior art standard for PB for normal applications. The second boot (340) will cut in booting time for a specific application and will make application software small. is in particular relevant for gaming, for portable devices and relative specific applications.

The present invention relates to a method for detecting computer hardware of a Unix-like operating system. The method comprises: installing a WindowsPE U-disk boot disk software tool on a computer of a Windows operating system; making a WindowsPE U-disk boot disk ; duplicating test software in the WindowsPE U-disk boot disk; starting the Windows PE operating system by a U disk, opening Master Lu software, firstly performing "computer configuration condition scanning", performing a "computer performance test", then performing a "temperature and pressure test", and finally performing "disk detection" and screen detection"; and starting CrystalDiskInfo+aida64+KEYBOARD TEST to perform a relative functional test so as to complete detection on computer hardware of the Unix-like operating system. According to method for detecting the computer hardware of the Unix-like operating system, which is provided by the present invention, a Unix-like system server is started by using the Windows PE operating system, so that the defects of a single function, compatibility deficiency and the like in the previous manner of "adopting detection software that supports Unix-like development" are overcome, detection difficulty is greatly reduced, and more professional performance on professional things by a non-professional person can be implemented.

The invention relates to a method for repairing bad sectors of computer storage media, in particular to a method for repairing hard disk bad sectors with high power flexibly. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, installing a HDD and manufacturing a boot disk, secondly, scanning the bad sectors, and thirdly, repairing the bad sectors. The method mainly solves the problems in the prior art which adopts a low lattice or hiding method, which enables the bad sectors of a hard disk not to be further diffused easily and prolongs the service life of the hard disk.