A method for booting a computer system includes: loading a first stage bootloader of a plurality of first stage bootloaders from a boot image based on a known configuration of the computer system; executing the first stage bootloader to identify a selected bootbank of a plurality of bootbanks in the boot image based on the known configuration of the computer system; executing, by the first stage bootloader, a second stage bootloader from the boot image with an instruction to boot from the selected bootbank; and executing, by the second stage bootloader, a binary file in the selected bootbank.