Patent ID: 7334117

Claim:
A method for operating a device, wherein the device comprises a boot loader, the method comprising: the boot loader transferring an operating system from a first memory medium of the device to a second memory medium of the device, wherein the first memory medium comprises non-volatile memory; the boot loader configuring the second memory medium to allow a processor of the device to execute at least a portion of the operating system, wherein said at least a portion of the operating system is executable from the second memory medium by the processor to operate the device; and the boot loader processing one or more requests from a host computer system concurrently with one or more of: said transferring the operating system from the first memory medium to the second memory medium; said configuring the second memory medium to allow the processor of the device to execute at least a portion of the operating system; or executing said at least a portion of the operating system from the second memory medium to operate the device.