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An x86 boot pager (real to protected mode, IDE backed virtual memory, no BIOS) in 512-byes of assembly.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2014-04-16 · latest 2019-11-03

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  1. Or just turn on paging and page in your kernel from the MBR, ignoring the BIOS: https://github.com/charlesap/bootpager EFI eliminates the need for such trickery though, and who doesn't have EFI these days?
    comment by charlesap · 2019-11-03 · in Kexecboot: Linux-As-a-Bootloader implementation based on kexec
  2. About this much more complex -- https://github.com/charlesap/bootpager (example legacy boot block that jumps into protected mode, enables paging, and pages in and executes arbitrary code, no bios used.) As mentioned above the trick is what…
    comment by charlesap · 2017-07-29 · in Realmode Assembly – Hello World Bootloader
  3. …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...
    comment by charlesap · 2014-04-16 · in Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader