Hi Andrew,
Rather sadly I have not been that lucky! Either I didn't do things right or it wasn't meant to be that simple. I read somewhere that Mike had plans to extend the bootloader capability to include HDD, CDROM and even USB. Any idea if this has been implemented yet?
Cheers
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- Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:43 pm
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: OS Dev Demo11
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- Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:51 pm
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: OS Dev Demo11
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Re: OS Dev Demo11
Hi, This sounds really promising then...thankfully my bios does support USB boot and I have already successfully booted very simple 'hello world' .asm bootcode from the usb stick. I realise that for all I want to do i.e. just allocate, initialze and erase some ram, the full blown kernel approach is ...
- Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:08 pm
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: OS Dev Demo11
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Re: OS Dev Demo11
Hi Andy, Thanx for the reply. Well up until I tried testing the code on my USB stick I was testing on both Bochs and a real PC, whereby Bochs struggled to fully boot but the real PC was just fine. So from what you're saying it looks like I'm gonna have to make some changes to the 1st stage boot code...
- Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:32 am
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: OS Dev Demo11
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OS Dev Demo11
Hi everyone, first time poster here! Is there any reason why the Demos from the OS Dev series would only boot fully from floppy media and not USB/CF? Things seem to be getting stuck at the 2nd bootloader stage; it just seems to hang indefinitely after the 1st stage has loaded. Can anybody shed any l...