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Re:Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader by CocaKoala on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @11:24AM (#7598341)
I'm really digging the systems posts that have been cropping up on HN recently; this and the toy OS post that was floating around are both really interesting.
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Re:Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader by zhemao on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @02:02PM (#7599381)
Funny thing is that they both do basically the same thing, except one is done all in assembly and the other in C.

I would have liked this post to actually discuss the things that a bootloader is meant to do, like switching to 32-bit protected mode and loading the next block of code from the disk.

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