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Re:Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader by charlesap on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @09:55AM (#7597739)
You can go all the way to protected mode, enable paging, and then page in the rest of your kernel in just 512 bytes, and without touching the BIOS: https://github.com/charlesap/bootpager/blob/master/oiuboot.a...
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Re:Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader by Rusky on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @06:09PM (#7600836)
That's pretty impressive. Unfortunately the BIOS is still required for getting a map of physical memory...
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