Boot Process Segmentation for Accelerated OS Initialization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of the boot process in computer systems leads to prolonged boot times, as many hardware devices and system resources are overloaded, limiting the speed at which the user operating system can be loaded and made available.
Innovation Solution
The method involves identifying and excluding non-critical hardware devices and software elements from the boot process, allowing the system to complete the boot process without them and then initializing these components as post-boot tasks, thereby reducing the load on system resources and accelerating the boot time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If all hardware devices are included in the boot process, then system reliability and completeness are improved, but boot time increases and system performance during boot deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The boot process is segmented into two distinct phases: critical boot-time initialization and non-critical post-boot initialization. Hardware devices are categorized and separated into critical devices that must be initialized during boot and non-critical devices that can be initialized afterward. This segmentation allows the boot process to focus only on essential devices, reducing boot time while ensuring all devices are eventually initialized for complete system functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
Critical hardware devices are identified and initialized in advance during the boot process before the operating system fully loads. Non-critical devices are deferred to post-boot initialization. This preliminary action ensures that essential system components are ready before the user needs to interact with the system, while non-essential components are prepared afterward without delaying the boot process.
2Adaptability or versatility
If all hardware devices are initialized during boot, then system functionality is complete, but system resources become overloaded and boot speed decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Hardware devices are segmented into critical and non-critical categories based on their importance to system functionality. Critical devices are initialized during boot to ensure essential system functions are available. Non-critical devices are initialized after boot completes, allowing the boot process to proceed quickly while still achieving complete system functionality eventually. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by distributing device initialization across different time periods.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the initialization schedule of hardware devices based on their criticality. Instead of a static all-or-nothing approach, the system flexibly manages device initialization timing, prioritizing critical devices during boot and handling non-critical devices afterward. This dynamic approach optimizes boot speed while maintaining complete system functionality.
3Loss of time
If non-critical hardware devices are excluded from boot process, then boot time is reduced, but device availability is delayed until post-boot
Solution Approach 1:
Non-critical hardware devices are prepared and initialized as post-boot tasks immediately after the boot process completes. While these devices are not available during the boot process itself, they are quickly brought online right after boot, minimizing the overall delay. This approach successfully reduces boot time while ensuring non-critical devices become available shortly thereafter without significantly impacting user experience.
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AI summary
Systems, methods and products are described that provide accelerated boot performance. One embodiment provides a method including: initiating a booting process of a user operating system of a computer system, wherein the operating system sets a plurality of hardware devices for inclusion in the booting process; identifying a non-critical hardware device in the plurality of hardware devices set for start up according to the user operating system; excluding the non-critical hardware device from the booting process; completing the booting process to provide an operational user operating system to a user without starting an excluded non-critical hardware device; and thereafter loading and initializing the excluded non-critical hardware device as a post-boot task. Other embodiments are described and claimed.