Please help, I'm another typical newbie

[Adam Woods]

Well well well...

I'm just another typical newbie looking for help. I put myself down, because when I look at what the rest of you have done, I feel small... Anyway..

I'm [obviously] trying to write my own OS, and so far, I've got as far as learning C [I'm good at it too...] and writing a kernel. What I need, is to:

A) Learn Assembly Language
B) Write a bootstrap that will LOAD my kernel

I know how to write the simple-est bootstrap, but it doesn't do anything. Anyone who can help would be MUCH appreciated.

For your info, I'm planning on using a floppy to boot it, and I DON'T want to use anyone else's code. I'm running a Win98 box, and am going to develop my OS in Win98 or DOS

Thanks for your help in telling me where I can get these.

Adam

[K.J.]

A) Read the Art Of Assembly:

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/Arto ... ofAsm.html

And search Google(http://www.google.com) for assembly lanuage tutorial*.

B) Go to John Fine's web page and get Partcopy(for copying your bootsector to your floppy) and I suggest looking at his bootsectors(written in asm) as they are well commented and easy to understand:

http://www.execpc.com/~geezer/johnfine/index.htm

K.J.