Dell Products Inc.

Xiao Ping Fang

Hatim Yousef Amro

Hai Yang

Tao Chen

Daiqian Zhan

Rudolf V Bendixen

Li Feng Lin

Eng Hooi Teoh

As an example, a computing device having a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) may boot into a preinstallation environment (associated with a first operating system), determine that a second operating system is to be installed on the computing device, and write an image of the second operating system to the boot disk. The image may include a special partition. The computing device may write the preinstallation environment (associated with first operating system) to the special partition of the image of the second operating system, and create a boot entry in the UEFI to cause the computing device to boot into the preinstallation environment (Windows PE). After booting into the preinstallation environment, the computing device may execute one or more diagnostic tests, delete the boot entry, and reboot the computing device to install a basic input output system (Coreboot) to replace UEFI and install the second operating system (Chrome OS).

Using a single process to install a UEFI-supported OS or a non-UEFI supported OS on a hardware platform

A manufacturing testing system includes an information handling system, a RAM memory device including a reserved physical RAM address space, non-volatile bootable disk, and a header for the reserved physical RAM address space. The head may include a non-volatile bootable disk signature, a start physical address, a length of reserved space, and a processor.

System and method to create a non-volatile bootable RAM disk

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Zhejiang, China

Xiao Ping Fang