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so did it work?

It restarts me when writes "a" and "b". I think it still doesn't work. :'(

Hmm ? how is *this* supposed to work ? are you in unreal mode ? Oh wait! it's mov bx, 60000 and not mov bx,0x60000, thus it will assemble fine.

However, i doubt you wanted to place your kernel at that place .
in your .ld file let me believe that your kernel expect to be located at 1MB barrier ... correct ?

Sorry, i forgot to upload new source to the internet.
http://avnet.sytes.net/~vladas/kernel.txt
I updated the link.ld and video.c files like Neo told me.

Try the attached one out, you will see that the line gets printed.
The compile.bat file instead of writing to a floppy just generates a image file called 'test.img' give this to bochs and see the output. Let me know what you get.

btw it would be more helpful if you use comments in your code.

Yeeee! ;D Now it works. Thank you! ;D

Vladaz wrote: Yeeee! ;D Now it works. Thank you! ;D

yeah it works with a few calls to the print function only. i just realised what was 'wrong'.

The 'error' was that I was using partcopy with the wrong file size. I mean i was testing your code out with a single print statement in kernel_main() and was using the size that was generated by that file. Afterward when i used your code with the other print statements the thing crashed because the whole file was not read in. (I had to run this through BOCHS debugger single-stepping to realize that pure nothing was being executed after a point).
Change the relevant line in the compile.bat file to this If it doesn't work after this, knock me down.