News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on X86 boot sector written in C (2010).

Re:X86 boot sector written in C (2010) by jhallenworld on Thursday October 23, 2014 @11:31PM (#8502018)
Why read only three sectors when you can read the whole OS into memory. Take a look at these:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/boot

They're assembly language MBR and Linux boot loaders I wrote long ago. The bootloaders understand EXT2 or FAT, yet still fit in 1K.

[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.