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Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Yufei Li, Shanghai, CN;

Mengze Liao, Shanghai, CN;

Jian Tang, Shanghai, CN;

Jiang Yu, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.02); G06F 9/44 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach for efficient booting. The approach loads a firmware into a memory from one or more integrated memories, wherein the one or more integrated memories are flash memories on a motherboard. The approach loads an operating system into the memory from the one or more integrated memories. Responsive to loading the operating system into the memory, the approach mounts one or more root filesystems.


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