MateuszJanda/hal_bootloader

Simple bootloader written in NASM.

Toy project. Simple bootloader written in NASM (variant of Intel assembly syntax). It resides in MBR memory and doesn't boot OS just print nice HAL graphic.

Build and run

make
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive format=raw,file=bootloader.bin

Links and credits

• https://medium.com/swlh/an-introduction-to-i386-boot-loader-programming-823354b80846
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_10H
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/16,_32,_and_64_Bits