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OK - my boot sector get loaded 0x7C00.

Question 1:
CS:0x200 is the end of the running boot loader. Right? If not, what is it?

Question 2:
How do I access memory just after the boot loader. I have been trying to do the equivelent of the following pseudo code:
BX = CS:0x200 + [offset]
where offset is a 16 bit number I have defined, but I'm still trying to come up to speed on ASM and the syntax is getting me.

Can anyone help me out?
Thanks
_mark()

never mind...I seem to have it working.

One last question if I may, then things should be working...

      MOV      BX, [koff]
      MOV      AX, [kseg]
;      JMP      AX:BX
      JMP      0800:0000
      HLT

How can I jump to the kernel at [kseg]:[koff]. I have
tried numerous things, but I cannot seem to land on the right way to do it?


Thanks
_mark()

check the instruction set in the documentations coming with NASM.

What you probably want is something like

farptr:
   dd k_offset
   dw k_segment

jmp [farptr]

Great, that is the syntax I was looking for. Now just one question about your example. Why is it you have the offset 4 bytes and the segment second. I would have expect to see both 16 bit values with the segment first:

farptr:
DD kseg
DD koff

My code is a boot loader running in real-mode.

Thanks
_mark

by trial and error, it seems like the offset does come first. Anyone know the reason for that, it seems backwards to me.

BTW:
From the manual I found that:
JMP FAR WORD [kernel]
was not required, but made it more clear to me that it was 16 bit.

Mark