Re: oskit how to boot

• To: oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu
• Subject: Re: oskit how to boot
• From: Martin McCann <oskit-list@novusrota.eclipse.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:19:56 +0100
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Hi All 

> I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHAT EXACTLY START DOES AND HOW TO MAKE IT
> WORK WITH ARBITRARY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES!!!!!! Where in the 50 megs of
> source is it anyway???

I assume from this you want to know how to create your own multi-boot loadable kernel - Grub will either load an ELF excecutable (I never got this working, though I didn't try to hard), or a plain binary. 

To load a plain binary you need to have the multiboot header in the first 8192 bytes of the image file - if you have grub installed 'info multiboot' will give you the specification you need. They also have a very minimal example kernel to get started. 

Regards, 
Martin 

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