An information handling system may include a processor, a basic input/output system (BIOS) communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to maintain a first variable indicative of whether auto-provisioning is enabled for the information handling system, maintain a second variable indicative of whether auto-provisioning has been completed for the information handling system, and upon boot of the information handling system, perform auto-provisioning of a host operating system image to the information handling system if the first variable indicates that auto-provisioning is enabled for the information handling system and the second variable indicates that auto-provisioning of the information handling system is incomplete.

An application control method and an electronic device. The method is applied to the electronic device. The method includes: determining a type of a to-be-launched application; and starting, according to the type of the to-be-launched application, a running system corresponding to the to-be-launched application. The running system includes an application operating system and a real-time operating system, the application operating system and the real-time operating system run independently of each other on the electronic device, and resources required for running the application system are greater than resources required for running the real-time operating system.

An information processing method includes obtaining version information of an operating system to be installed at a computer apparatus; determining whether the operating system to be installed is supported by the computer apparatus according to the version information; and in response to determining that the operating system to be installed is not supported by the computer apparatus, displaying a prompt message on a current interface of the computer apparatus before an installation path of the operating system is determined, the prompt message being configured to prompt a user that the computer apparatus does not support the operating system to be installed.

An information processing method includes performing a first boot operation, determining an execution time of the first boot operation and an execution time of a second boot operation before the first boot operation, in response to determining that an interval between the execution time of the first boot operation and the execution time of the second boot operation does not reach a first threshold, determining whether a call number of a first mirror image file before performing the first boot operation has reached a second threshold, and in response to determining that the call number of the first mirror image file before performing the first boot operation has not reached the second threshold, calling the first mirror image file.

A system on chip (SOC) is provided. The system on chip includes a non-volatile memory, an exception detector, and a processor. The non-volatile memory stores a first bootset in a first region, the first bootset including a booting operation bootloader for a first booting operation and stores a second bootset in a second region that is different from the first region. The exception detector is activated after execution of an initialization bootloader, detects an exception occurrence in the system on chip, and generates a reset signal in response to the exception occurrence that is detected. The processor performs a second booting operation by using the second bootset in response to the reset signal received from the exception detector during the first booting operation performed by using the first bootset.

The invention includes, in part, storing a seed image having instructions to communicate with devices of a predetermined device type, but not instructions to provision a network device to be fully operational in a network. A processor boots a network device in the network for a first time, detects if another network device exists in the network, and downloads a full version of a product image from the other network device. The full version of the product image uniquely corresponds to network devices deployed in the network that include at least one device of the predetermined device type, replaces the seed image with the full version of the product image, and provisions the network device to a particular device type of the network.

An integrated circuit includes a first processing domain configured to run a first operating system and a second processing domain configured to run a second operating system that is different than the first operating system. The integrated circuit further includes a time stamp timer circuit in the first processing domain configured to provide a first time stamp value to the first processing domain and an adjusted second time stamp value to the second processing domain. The time stamp timer circuit includes a timer adjust circuit configured to synchronize the adjusted second time stamp value when a power up signal is received by the time stamp timer circuit from the second processing domain.

An aspect includes receiving a software image file set and a capacity requirement at a software image distribution system. A software image is generated based on the software image file set. A license record is generated based on the capacity requirement. The software image and the license record are provided to an external interface of the software image distribution system. An installation action is triggered by the software image distribution system on to a machine based on a request of an ordering system.

A human-machine interface (HMI), HMI system, turbomachinery package, and method of modifying a partition of an HMI are disclosed. The HMI comprises a first partition storing a first operating system exclusively supporting a primary application; and a second partition storing a second operating system exclusively supporting an imaging application. The HMI system comprises the HMI; an external computing device; a serial cable; and, optionally, a network cable. The turbomachinery package comprises a housing; a gas turbine; a plurality of sensors; a plurality of actuators; and an HMI. The imaging application may be an image deploy function, an image back-up function, and/or an image restore function, any of which can be executed without the use of removable media.

Disclosed is an electronic device comprising processor connected to a memory. The memory is configured to store a control application, a preferences file and an operating system image for executing a second operating system. The processor is configured to execute the control application in a first operating system. The processor is configured to determine whether preferences of the operating system image satisfy a defined condition in the control application The processor is also configured to change the preferences of the operating system image by using the preferences file when the preferences of the operating system image do not satisfy the defined condition. The processor is further configured to copy, to the operating system image, a package file for allowing the control application to control an operation of the second operating system.