; MEMORY LAYOUT ; R = reserved, U = usable ; -------------------------------------------------------------------- ; R | 0x000000 - 0x000400: real-mode interrupt vector table ; R | 0x000400 - 0x000500: bios data area ; U | 0x000500 - 0x007c00: stack ; U | 0x007000 - 0x007c00: big stage0 initial stack frame ; | 0x007000 - 0x007001: boot drive number ; | 0x007001 - 0x007002: boot drive sectors per track ; | 0x007002 - 0x007004: boot drive number of heads ; U | 0x007c00 - 0x007e00: boot sector ; U | 0x007e00 - 0x080000: conventional usable memory ; R | 0x080000 - 0x0a0000: extended bios data area (maximum possible size) ; R | 0x0a0000 - 0x0c0000: video memory ; R | 0x0c0000 - 0x0c8000: video bios ; R | 0x0c8000 - 0x0f0000: bios expansiosn ; R | 0x0f0000 - 0x100000: motherboard bios ; BIOS puts our boot sector at 0000:7c00 org 0x7c00 ; We're (probably) in real mode bits 16 ; Disable interrupts cli xor ax, ax mov ds, ax mov es, ax ; We put stack base at 0x7c00 and give ourselves a big stack frame [0x7000,0x7c00) for spilling to. ; Stack grows high->low, so we'll grow away from our program text at 0x7c00. mov ss, ax mov sp, 0x7c00 mov bp, 0x7000 ; Segment for VGA (0xb800 * 16 = 0xb8000) mov ax, 0xb800 mov fs, ax ; Store boot drive number mov [bp], dl ; Get drive geometry mov di, 0x00 mov ah, 0x08 int 0x13 jc panic and cl, 0x3f ; sectors per track mov [bp + 1], cl movzx bx, dh inc bx ; number of heads mov [bp + 2], bx ; Load LBA 1. cmp cl, 1 ; division of 1 by nonzero can be done with cmp sete al ; temp = LBA / (sectors per track) setne cl ; sector - 1 = LBA % (sectors per track) inc cl xor ah, ah ; zero-extend temp xor dx, dx ; TODO: explain why this is needed for div div bx ; ah = mod (head), al = div (cylinder) mov dh, ah ; head mov ch, al ; cylinder ; we already have sector in cl mov ah, 2 ; read disk mov al, 1 ; load one sector mov bx, 0x7e00 mov dl, [bp] ; drive number int 0x13 jc panic ; head = temp % number of heads ; cylinder = temp / number of heads ; Set VGA mode ; https://mendelson.org/wpdos/videomodes.txt mov ax, 0x0003 int 0x10 ; mov word fs:[0x0000], 0xc048 ; mov word fs:[0x0002], 0xc069 mov al, [0x7e00] mov byte fs:[0x0000], al mov al, [0x7e01] mov byte fs:[0x0002], al mov al, [0x7e02] mov byte fs:[0x0004], al hlt panic: mov ax, 0x0003 int 0x10 mov ax, 0xb800 mov ds, ax mov word [0x0000], 0x4f46 mov word [0x0002], 0x4f41 mov word [0x0004], 0x4f49 mov word [0x0006], 0x4f4c hlt ; TODO: enable A20 ; TODO: load a second stage ; TODO: grab all the info we can from bios interrupts and deliver it to ths OS nicely ; e.g. in a fixed memory location ; TODO: ; - Generate GPT in justfile ; - Parse global parition table ; - Load second stage from GPT partition with a particular UUID / name like GRUB does ; (it's Hah!IdontNeedEFI in GRUB) ; - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition ; - Future work: ; - Boot from UEFI ; - Boot on non-GPT partitioned disk ; MBR bootstrap field is 440 bytes long %if ($ - $$) > 440 %error "exceeded mbr bootstrap field size" %endif