Solid state disk, BIOS device, and method and equipment for booting operating system

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a solid state disk, a BIOS device and a method and equipment for booting an operating system by using the solid state disk, wherein the solid state disk comprises a PCIE interface and an ROM, and drive information needed for establishing the communication link of the BIOS device and the solid state disk is stored in the ROM, so that the BIOS device can acquire a master boot record needed for booting the operating system from the solid state disk to start the operating system. The drive information for supporting solid state disk booting is solidified in the ROM space of the solid state disk to solve a problem that the solid state disk with the PCIE interface can not be identified by the BIOS device and can not boot the operating system, so that the BIOS device can identify the solid state disk with the PCIE interface, therefore, the solid state disk with the PCIE interface can be used for booting the operating system, and the starting speed ofthe operating system can be markedly increased.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of storage, in particular to a solid-state hard disk, a BIOS device, an operating system boot method and equipment. Background technique [0002] Compared with traditional mechanical disks, solid state disks (Solid State Disk, hereinafter referred to as: SSD), because they are based on flash memory technology, no longer have the rotating physical structure of traditional mechanical disks, so they have many more excellent characteristics, such as no noise, weight Lightweight, no heat dissipation, and high read and write access speeds. As the capacity of SSDs increases and costs continue to decrease, the application fields of SSDs will become wider. One of the applications is to use the SSD disk as a system disk for booting an operating system based on the high-speed characteristics of the SSD disk, so as to shorten the startup time of the operating system. In the prior art, based on the high-speed character...

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[0003] The inventor found in the process of realizing the present invention that due to the limitation of the transmission rate of the SATA interface in the prior art, the SSD disk of the SATA interface cannot exert the high performance of the SSD disk. Performance, using it as a system disk to boot the operating system cannot further increase the startup speed of the operating system

An SSD disk with a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (hereinafter referred to as PCIE) interface can have a higher transmission rate than an SSD disk with a SATA interface. Support, so the BIOS device will not be able to recognize the SSD disk with the PCIE interface, so that the SSD disk with the PCIE interface cannot be used as the system disk for booting the operating system

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