1. A method, comprising: identifying a first boot configuration type for a disk image, the disk image comprising a master boot record and a disk partition; wherein the disk partition comprises a volume boot record, the master boot record comprises first instructions for loading an operating system, and the volume boot record comprises second instructions for loading the operating system; receiving an input indicative of a new file system format for the disk partition; determining a second boot configuration type corresponding to the new file system format; and modifying the disk image to use the second boot configuration type to load the operating system by modifying the first instructions and the second instructions, installing a boot loader associated with the second boot configuration type, and reformatting the partition to the new file system format.