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A Look At Bootstrapping

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the low-level-fun-and-games dept.

markmcb writes "OmniNerd posted an interesting article on the often-overlooked process of bootstrapping. The author does a nice job of showing how to take an x86 system from BIOS to OS once it's powered on. A complete set of commented code is provided and explained in the article."

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  1. Meh, why not just look at LinuxBIOS? by DeathPenguin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a bootstrapper that's written in over 99% C, boots Linux off several commercial mainboards, and isn't limited to just x86.

    I guess TFA is a good technical resource, but it's also a good reminder as to why big wads of assembly suck.