In consumer electronics market, the need for fast boot has become paramount; think of a TV set taking 20 seconds to boot up and another TV set taking 3 seconds on shelves. Suspend-to-RAM might be an appealing solution; however, there are a lot of customers that plug out from an outlet to save energy, making suspend-to-RAM useless. Besides, with the emergent of smart electronics, especially with smart phones and smart TVs, the initial state of a device has become nondeterministic, making snapshot booting technique based on suspend-to-disk extremely difficult. Thus, vendors of such devices depend on the performance of a normal booting sequence: a.k.a. "cold boot".