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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Jun Xu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rangaraju Iyengar, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4416 (2013.01); H04L 61/2023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of bootstrapping from a remote image file comprising loading, by a processor, an initial bootloader, employing the initial bootloader to download a final bootloader from the remote image file via a network, employing the final bootloader to mount the remote image file as a block device, downloading a kernel and root file system mounting data from the remote image, and executing the kernel to bootstrap the processor based on the root file system mounting data.