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- the present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for booting a personal computer system and, more particularly, for quickly booting a computer system, in which a boot configuration information is created and saved in a disk for future boot, and the saved boot configuration information is reused upon the request of the subsequent boot.
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the system architecture for a conventional personal computer system, comprising a central processing unit (CPU) 1 ; a read only memory (ROM) 2 for permanent storage of basic input output system (BIOS) and the initial states of internal devices, a random access memory (RAM) 3 for temporary storage of information; a micro computer (MICOM) 4 for controlling peripheral devices such as a keyboard input device, a mouse input device, and a power supply 7 ; a hard disk (HDD) 8 for providing a secondary information storage; a disk controller 5 for controlling HDD; a video output display 6 for displaying information; and a power supply 7 .
- CPU central processing unit
- ROM read only memory
- BIOS basic input output system
- RAM random access memory
- MICOM micro computer
- HDD hard disk
- an operating system is a software that provides resource management on a computer system, including basic tasks such as process execution, memory management, and file management. Examples are MS-DOS, Windows95, OS/2, and UNIX. Execution of user applications is based on these basic functions of the operating system.
- the boot process of an IBM PC in which MS-DOS operating system is already installed is as follows.
- a power-on self test POST
- ROM BIOS ROM BIOS codes
- a file called MSDOS.SYS is loaded and executed
- another file called IO.SYS is then loaded and executed to perform certain preliminary functions related to management of such peripheral devices as keyboard, disk, and display.
- a command preprocessor or COMMAND.COM is loaded into a memory that receives, interprets and executes user commands.
- a file called CONFIG.SYS that specifies devices possibly connected to the personal computer is loaded and ASCII statements contained therein are executed to load device drivers and initialize them.
- another ASCII file called AUTOEXEC.BAT is loaded and then programs that are listed therein are executed, thereby preparing the personal computer for use.
- the BIOS codes include a plurality of computer routines for controlling devices such as a system clock, video output display 6 , disk controller 5 , and keyboard and thus provide a low-level interface to these devices.
- the BIOS is generally stored in a Flash ROM.
- BIOS codes for POST are, first, executed to diagnose and initialize devices attached to the computer system and obtain the status of the devices.
- the boot process is usually called “quick boot”, which is achieved by simplifying some device diagnosis processes or loading the device status information that was obtained at the preceding boot time from a storage medium such as disk. Because the quick boot means a boot process in which some POST operations, e.g., memory test are skipped, the quick boot is generally referred to as “quick post”.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the quick POST in an IBM personal computer system in which Windows95 is installed according to the conventional art.
- the Windows95 is loaded into a memory after execution of a normal POST process (S 12 ).
- ASCII statements in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT are executed sequentially and WIN.COM is then executed to load Windows95.
- Windows 3.1 a previous version of Windows95, is loaded after the personal computer is booted on the basis of MS-DOS, Windows95 installed PC is booted and Windows95 user interface is provided directly.
- a basic boot information is saved to a disk for future quick POST process (S 13 ).
- the above-mentioned quick POST process is performed to reduce the time needed to complete a normal POST process.
- the POST process execution is skipped by using a basic boot information that was created and saved in a disk immediately after the preceding POST process is completed.
- the conventional quick boot relies on the POST process, e.g., the omission of memory test.
- the same operations as those of normal boot process are still performed after the quick POST process. Therefore, in case where there are a lot of ASCII statements in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, the quick boot of the conventional art is not effective to reduction of the boot time.
- the present invention provides a method for quickly booting a personal computer system, comprising the steps of performing a POST operation when the system is powered on or a reset button is pressed; checking if a boot configuration information that was created in the preceding boot process exists in a disk; saving the boot configuration information to the disk after execution of a POST operation on the basis of the checking result; and loading a graphic user interface (GUI) program.
- GUI graphic user interface
- the method for quickly booting a computer system is also characterized in that it comprises the steps of performing a POST operation when the system is powered on or a reset button is pressed; restoring a boot configuration information by using the boot configuration information that has been saved in a disk; and loading a GUI program.
- a boot configuration information that is resident in a memory i.e., the status of devices and the contents of memory are saved into a disk.
- a computer system can be booted quickly by using the stored boot configuration information, without execution of the initial device configuration file and the automatic batch run file.
- FIG. 1 is the system architecture of a general personal computer system
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the conventional method for quick POST operation in a Windows95-installed personal computer
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a method for a quick boot according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a method for saving a boot configuration information after execution of POST operation in a Windows95-installed personal computer according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a method for restoring a stored boot configuration information in a Windows95-installed personal computer according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a method for saving the contents of memory into a disk according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a method for restoring the contents of memory according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the quick boot process in an IBM personal computer system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the flow proceeds to step S 21 , in which a POST operation is performed when a computer system is powered on or a reset button is pressed.
- a normal boot process of an operating system e.g., Windows95 is then executed (S 22 ).
- a boot configuration information i.e., the contents of memory and the status of the attached devices that was created and has been resident in a memory since execution of the POST operation is saved to a disk ( 523 ).
- a RAM-resident program is called by a software interrupt (INT in general) in modified ROM BIOS codes so as to save the boot configuration information into a disk for future boots.
- INT software interrupt
- FIGS. 4 and 5 are flowcharts respectively showing methods for saving and restoring a boot configuration information in a Windows95-installed IBM personal computer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- CONFIG.SYS is loaded into the memory and statements therein are executed.
- CONFIG.SYS includes ASCII statements describing the size of disk buffer, the number of files that can be opened simultaneously, the names of device drivers needed to control devices attached to the computer system, and so on.
- CONFIG.SYS After executing CONFIG.SYS, another ASCII file called AUTOEXEC.BAT is loaded into the memory. The file-names of programs that a user wants to run automatically at the boot time are listed therein, and the programs are executed (S 34 ).
- a RAM-resident program is activated to replace an original INT 2Fh service routine in the ROM BIOS codes.
- the interrupt Vector for INT 2Fh is substituted for the address of the RAM-resident program (S 35 ).
- WIN.COM is executed to load Windows95 into the memory (S 36 ).
- the INT 2Fh service routine is called by using software system management interrupt (software SMI) during the execution of WIN.COM.
- SMI software system management interrupt
- the RAM-resident program checks if there is a file that contains the boot configuration information in a disk (S 38 ) and saves the current boot configuration information to the disk, if not (S 39 ).
- WIN.COM is then executed to load a GUI program of Windows95 into the memory (S 41 ), providing a user with Windows95 interface (S 42 ). It should be noted that the boot configuration information is saved to the disk immediately before Windows95 loads device drivers into a memory, i.e., an extended memory is used to load GUI program of Windows95.
- the operation of saving the boot configuration information to a disk is described in detail with reference to a flowchart of FIG. 6 .
- the contents of memory block of a predetermined size are, first, examined and are then saved to the disk if the memory block is satisfied with a predetermined criterion.
- An address of the memory block is saved to the disk, as well.
- the INT 2Fh service routine checks if a memory segment of 64 KB is filled with ‘0’, while scanning every memory segment (S 72 ).
- the contents of the memory segment are saved to the disk (S 73 ), together with its address (S 74 ).
- the memory segment is treated as a memory accessing unit, which is 64 KB in size in the IBM personal computer system.
- the boot configuration information to be saved is approximately 7 MB in size, which is composed of 1 MB for saving the software SMI, 4 MB for the video memory, and 2 MB for saving a memory area in which the interrupt vector table and some crucial programs for system management are resided.
- the saved boot configuration information is used to boot the computer system.
- the method for restoring the boot configuration information will be described now in detail referring to FIG. 5 .
- the process for restoring the boot configuration information is described in detail referring to a flowchart of FIG. 7 .
- a current boot configuration has been changed based on the restored boot configuration information. If there is any change in the boot configuration, commands that are usually executed at the boot time, for example, commands for initial setup device configuration are executed and then a newly formed boot configuration information is saved to the disk for future boot.
- the boot configuration information will be restored (S 81 ). If it is determined that the boot configuration information is restored, the contents of memory segments, addresses of which was saved before in the disk, are copied to the memory at their own addresses (S 82 ). Other memory segments than the restored memory segments, become filled with ‘0’ (S 83 ). The reason why the contents of those segments are not restored is that they are set to all ‘0’s during the BIOS POST operation.
- WIN.COM is executed to load Windows95 into the memory (S 58 ).
- the INT 2Fh service routine is called through the software SMI during the execution of WIN.COM (S 59 ) and thus the RAM-resident program is executed.
- the RAM-resident program first, checks the contents of a particular register and then, if it is matched with a predetermined value, saves the current boot configuration information that is resident in the memory to the disk (S 61 ).
- the method for saving the contents of memory where the boot configuration information is resided is the same as that shown in FIG. 6 .
- control is passed to WIN.COM again and thus Windows95 GUI is set up (S 62 ), thereby preparing the computer system for use (S 63 ).
- the reason why the boot configuration information should be restored before Windows95 loads Windows95-dedicated device drivers is to reduce the amount of data on the disk that must be copied to a memory at the boot time. Because the extended memory has been not used yet at that time, even if the size of total memory is 512 MB, memory of about 7 MB only is saved to and restored from the disk, according to the methods shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 . Therefore, the execution of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT can be skipped by restoring the contents of memory and the status of devices based on the boot configuration information, thereby reducing the boot time significantly.
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