INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE DEVICE

• US 20180032351A1
• Filed: 07/31/2017
• Published: 02/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: HE, Haiyang
• Application Number:
  US15/664,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20180032351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0644 Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/065 Replication mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0679 Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4406 Loading of operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an information processing method. The method includes installing a first operating system; generating a first boot variable based on a boot code corresponding to the first operation system; and storing the first boot variable and the boot code in a first removable storage medium of the electronic apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing method, comprising:

installing a first operating system on an electronic apparatus;

generating a first boot variable based on a boot code corresponding to the first operation system; and

storing the first boot variable and the boot code in a first removable storage medium of the electronic apparatus.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein storing the first boot variable and the boot code on the first removable storage medium includes:

writing a storage address of the first boot variable into a partition entry of a partition of a plurality of partitions of the first removable storage medium; and

writing the first boot variable at a storage location corresponding to the storage address of the partition.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

writing the storage address of the first boot variable into the partition entry of the partition of the plurality of partitions of the first removable storage medium includes writing sector indication information indicating a sector for storing the first boot variable into the partition entry of the partition; and

writing the first boot variable at the storage location corresponding to the storage address of the partition includes writing the first boot variable into the sector corresponding to the sector indication information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein:

writing the storage address of the first boot variable into the partition entry of the partition of the plurality of partitions of the first removable storage medium includes writing sector indication information indicating a sector for storing the first boot variable into attribute bytes of the partition entry of the partition.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the partition includes a boot entry;

the boot entry includes storage path bytes and system name bytes; and

writing the first boot variable at the storage location corresponding to the storage address of the partition includes;

storing a storage path in the storage path bytes, and

storing a system name in the system name bytes.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the boot entry further includes storage partition bytes;

writing the first boot variable at the storage location corresponding to the storage address of the partition further includes storing a partition identifier of the partition in the storage partition bytes.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the boot entry further includes storage path length bytes and system name length bytes;

writing the first boot variable at the storage location corresponding to the storage address of the partition further includes;

storing a required number of bytes for the storage path into the storage path length bytes, and

storing a required number of bytes for the system name into the system name length bytes.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the boot entry further includes start identification bytes and check bytes;

writing the first boot variable at the storage location corresponding to the storage address of the partition further includes;

storing a start identifier into the start identification bytes, and

storing a check code for data stored into the boot entry in the check bytes.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

during starting of the first operating system, reading the first boot variable from the first removable storage medium;

reading a second boot variable from a second storage medium;

determining whether the first boot variable is consistent with the second boot variable;

reading the boot code of the first operating system according to the first boot variable, in response to determining that the first boot variable is not consistent the second boot variable; and

reading the boot code of the first operating system according to the second boot variable, in response to determining the first boot variable is consistent the second boot variable.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein reading the boot code of the first operating system according to the first boot variable includes:

in response to determining that the first boot variable is not consistent the second boot variable, replacing the second boot variable in the second storage medium by the first boot variable; and

reading the boot code of the first operating system according to the replaced second boot variable.

11. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a first removable storage medium connected to the processor;

wherein the processor is configured for;

installing a first operating system on the electronic apparatus,

generating a first boot variable based on a boot code corresponding to the first operation system, and

storing the first boot variable and the boot code on the first removable storage medium.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein:

the first removable storage medium includes a plurality of partitions; and

the processor is further configured for;

writing a storage address of the first boot variable into a partition entry of a partition of the plurality of partitions of the first removable storage medium, and

writing the first boot variable at a storage location corresponding to the storage address of the partition.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein:

a partition table is stored on the first removable storage medium; and

the processor is further configured for;

writing sector indication information indicating a sector for storing the first boot variable into the partition entry of the partition, and

writing the first boot variable into the sector corresponding to the sector indication information.

14. The electronic apparatus of claim 13, wherein:

the partition entry of the partition includes attribute bytes; and

the processor is further configured for writing sector indication information indicating a sector for storing the first boot variable into the attribute bytes of the partition entry of the partition.

15. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein:

the partition includes a boot entry;

the boot entry includes storage path bytes and system name bytes; and

the processor is further configured for;

storing a storage path into the storage path bytes, and

storing a system name into the system name bytes.

16. The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein:

the boot entry further includes storage partition bytes; and

the processor is further configured for storing a partition identifier of the partition into the storage partition bytes.

17. The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein:

the boot entry further includes storage path length bytes and system name length bytes; and

the processor is further configured for;

storing a required number of bytes for a storage path into the storage path length bytes, and

storing a required number of bytes for a system name into the system name length bytes.

18. The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein:

the boot entry further includes start identification bytes and check bytes; and

the processor is further configured for;

storing a start identifier into the start identification bytes, and

storing a check code for data stored in the boot entry into the check bytes.

19. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein:

the memory further includes a second storage medium coupled with the processer; and

the processor is further configured for;

during starting of the first operating system, reading the first boot variable from the first removable storage medium,

reading a second boot variable from a second storage medium,

determining whether the first boot variable is consistent with the second boot variable,

in response to determining that the first boot variable is not consistent the second boot variable, reading the boot code of the first operating system according to the first boot variable, and

in response to determining that the first boot variable is consistent, the second boot variable, reading the boot code of the first operating system according to the second boot variable.

20. The electronic apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured for:

in response to determining that the first boot variable is not consistent the second boot variable, replacing the second boot variable in the second storage medium by the first boot variable; and

reading the boot code of the first operating system according to the replaced second boot variable.