System and method for installing an OS via a network card supporting PXE

• Main Authors: QU ZHONGYING, YANG YUNLONG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.01.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

The disclosure provides a computer system and a boot method thereof performing steps of: establishing an order of interrupt vectors for an interruption according to an order of BBS tables of hardware peripherals; preserving empty spaces in a first address space of a memory when the hardware peripherals are being initialized; inserting the BBS tables into the empty spaces if the initialized hardware peripherals are first hardware peripherals, or inserting the BBS tables into the first address space except the empty spaces if the initialized hardware peripherals are not the first hardware peripherals; disabling the hardware peripherals except a second hardware peripheral; and rebooting the computer system to activate the remote operating system under a preboot execution environment via one of the first hardware peripherals after the second hardware peripheral boots the preboot execution environment to install a remote operating system into the one of the first hardware peripherals.