Best ways to make the OS load from HDD

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Best ways to make the OS load from HDD

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Hello, I feel like making a bootloader which loads directly from the hard drive and not the floppy. Any examples or suggestions?
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You already wrote hard disk bootloaders and posted them in this thread.
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Octocontrabass wrote:You already wrote hard disk bootloaders and posted them in this thread.
Really?
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Only if you have parsed the partition table to find the location of the partition containing your kernel.
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Booting from a hard drive is literally 100% the same as booting from a floppy, unless you're reading past 8GB, in which case you need to use LBA. (Look up RBIL to learn how to use LBA).
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