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Best ways to make the OS load from HDD
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 1:57 pm
by Thunderbirds747
Hello, I feel like making a bootloader which loads directly from the hard drive and not the floppy. Any examples or suggestions?
Sincerely, Tim.
Re: Best ways to make the OS load from HDD
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 2:03 pm
by Octocontrabass
You already wrote hard disk bootloaders and posted them in
this thread.
Re: Best ways to make the OS load from HDD
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:31 am
by Thunderbirds747
Octocontrabass wrote:You already wrote hard disk bootloaders and posted them in
this thread.
Really?
Re: Best ways to make the OS load from HDD
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:43 am
by iansjack
Only if you have parsed the partition table to find the location of the partition containing your kernel.
Re: Best ways to make the OS load from HDD
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:08 pm
by azblue
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).