Patent ID: 8549545

Claim:
A computer system comprising a processor, a memory, and a computer readable storage device, said storage device containing program code configured to be executed by the processor via the memory to implement a method for configuring an improved computing system containing a first computing device, said method comprising: creating a logical layer and a physical layer within the first computing device; installing a software operating system (OS) in the logical layer of the first computing device; configuring a first basic input/output system (BIOS) based on installation in the physical layer of the first computing device, said configuring the first BIOS being based on first hardware devices determined to be present in the first computing device and based on determined ways to interact with the first hardware devices; relocating all first hardware device drivers for the first hardware devices from an OS image in the logical layer to a first Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) in the physical layer of the first computing device; installing the first BIOS in the physical layer of the first computing device which results in the first BIOS being contained in a first chipset to which the first EEPROM is directly connected, the first BIOS and the first EEPROM being external to each other, said first chipset being in the physical layer of the first computing device; and loading the first hardware device drivers from the first EEPROM into the first BIOS during a boot phase for the first computing device.