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ajtgarber wrote:I have a bootloader that prints out a line of text and loads the sector next to it and jumps to where it placed it in memory, I'm trying to figure out how to get
it to run on bare hardware without directly overwriting my bootsector on my hard drive. Since its two sectors (1KB) I'm unable to get mkisofs to make a bootable
iso for me, it does not have support for file systems yet so its just doing a raw read on the disk, do I have to add this before I'm going to be able to test it?
As always if I'm being stupid, point it out please
You could buy a cheapo hard drive, and use it for the exclusive purpose of testing your OS. The only way of testing a bootloader that I can see, apart from that, is on a virtual machine.
