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Looking for a bootloader for a PC

I am looking for a piece of software that would sit in the boot sector of a hard disk and load an application thus making possible an embedded application without having to use an OS. Source code is needed. The application will be coded in C or C++ using the GCC compiler.

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F;,VN[OWIR
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Check out SYSLINUX,

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; it has all the code to run 32-bit gcc-compiled code with a simple API in addition to any functions offered by the BIOS.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin

If you look at

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you will find public domain source code loader.asm and a web page of explanation about how it words. However, you'll need to set up the registers and go into 32-bit protected mode if you're going to use gcc. The loader currently does not do that.

Ed

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Ed Beroset

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