GRUB and Char*

[Phibred]

Hey, it has been a while and I'm trying to start up another operating system, this time in C and booting from GRUB.

Everything was working fine until I added

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char* helloWorld = "Hello World";

After that GRUB stopped booting my kernel. After that I commented out that line and it worked again.

I'm guessing the issue is something to do with my GRUB header is being pushed too deep into the file and grub is giving up on looking for it. Any advice on how to fix this? Maybe a linker trick I haven't found on the net?

Anyways, thanks for reading.

[Brynet-Inc]

I'm not 100%, But I think your linker script might need a .rodata section?

[Solar]

BareBones in the Wiki has a "known good" GRUB loader / linker frame. Do you see any obvious differences between that and your code?