Patent ID: 7284120

Claim:
A computer manufacturing system comprising: a first server storing a plurality of boot images, each boot image corresponding to a different operating system; and a system under test (SUT) including a network adapter and a boot loader, the boot loader to load a first boot image of the plurality of boot images onto the system under test (SUT) during a first part of a manufacturing process of the system under test (SUT), the boot loader to further load a second boot image of the plurality of boot images onto the system under test (SUT) during a second part of the manufacturing process of the system under test (SUT), wherein the first boot image corresponds to a first operating system and the second boot image corresponds to a second operating system that is different from the first operating system, and wherein the first boot image and the second boot image are received by the system under test (SUT) through the network adapter, and wherein the first server assigns a MAC address to the network adapter during the manufacturing process of the system under test (SUT), and the boot loader uses the MAC address assigned to the network adapter to determine a given boot image of the plurality of boot images to load onto the system under test (SUT) from the first server.