1. A process for designating a boot drive in a computing system, the process comprising, determining a configuration of storage devices available to the computing system; identifying a selected storage device from the storage devices available to the computing system; and creating, during a first runtime, an indicia on the selected storage device configured to indicate the selected storage device is a destination for provisioning of an operating system such that scanning the configuration of storage devices for the indicia during a runtime subsequent to the first runtime identifies the selected storage device as the destination for provisioning of the operating system.