GRUBing

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Mr_Spam

GRUBing

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I belive i will use grub as a bootloader for the beggining stages of my OS. My question is, What all dose grub do? Such as, switch to Pmode? load IDT, GDT, LDT? enable a20? stuff like that.

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Whatever5k

Re:GRUBing

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GRUB switches to Protected Mode, therefore enables A20. It builds a GDT temporarily, but you will have to load your own, nevertheless. It builds no IDT and interrupts are disabled...

See http://www.openbg.net/sto/os/xml/grub.html#grub2krnl
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