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OS boot documents, boot sectors examples, common issues etc.

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Short Description:	Ever wonder how to make a bootable CD-ROM? Here's the specs that define how to make it happen. OS install programs on bootable CD-ROM's are cool. We should have more of them.
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	117760
Downloads:	675
Rating:	Total Votes:3

Short Description:	The purpose of this specification is to describe a methodology by which the BIOS will identify all IPL (Initial Program Load) devices in the system, prioritize them in the order the user selects, and then sequentially go through each device and attempt to boot. The BIOS must become more intelligent about booting because the Plug and Play BIOS Specification places additional requirements on the BIOS during the boot process, and there are now more devices that are bootable such as CD-ROM, network remote boot, PCMCIA, etc.
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	183180
Downloads:	775
Rating:	Total Votes:0

Short Description:	This is just a quick hack I put together to demonstate how to write bootsector code. All it does is print the initial values of the registers and then hang. I didn't really comment anything, but it's very simple so it shouldn't be difficult to understand.
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	2517
Downloads:	1611
Rating:	Total Votes:0

Short Description:	Short tutorial I wrote that explains how a bootsector works and how it is supposed to interface to the startup code.
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	2451
Downloads:	478
Rating:	Total Votes:0

Short Description:	A vrey interesting and detialed Bootloader Development Walkthrough.
Submitted On:	15 Oct 2004
File Size:	33067
Downloads:	1315
Rating:	Total Votes:2

Short Description:	This tutorial builds off of the basics and gives concrete examples of how to use the NASM assembler
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	6120
Downloads:	430
Rating:	Total Votes:0

Short Description:	This snippet of NASM assembly code is used to enable the A20 addressing line so that more than 1M of memory can be addresed... very useful nowadays... :)
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	4408
Downloads:	312
Rating:	Total Votes:1

Short Description:	This short file describes the format of the BIOS data segment that immediately follows the intterupt table in memory. This holds all kinds of neat stuff figured out by the BIOS, check it out!
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	20894
Downloads:	310
Rating:	Total Votes:0

Short Description:	This is another short file, this one describes the CMOS data. This includes stuff like the RTC and various status registers.
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	2825
Downloads:	371
Rating:	Total Votes:0

Short Description:	This guide will attempt to describe partitioning, boot sequences, and the programs which manage them on the Intel 80x86 platform. Perhaps the simplest way to explain partitions and the bootup sequence is to start with simple cases, and add complexity as needed. We will start with a single-OS setup, and proceed to more complicated examples.
Submitted On:	14 Jun 2004
File Size:	42252
Downloads:	486
Rating:	Total Votes:0

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