Looking for a bootloader for a PC

Sep 09, 2004 2 Replies

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F;,VN[OWIR 21 years ago

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.

please reply to this newsgroup. Thank you

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H. Peter Anvin 21 years ago

Followup to: By author: "F;,VN[OWIR" In newsgroup: comp.arch.embedded

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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Ed Beroset 21 years ago

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.

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