; MEMORY LAYOUT ; 0x0000 - 0x7000: stack ; 0x7000 - 0x7c00: globals ; 0x7000 - 0x7001: boot drive number ; 0x7001 - 0x7002: number of hard disk drives ; 0x7002 - 0x7003: ; 0x7c00 - 0x7e00: boot sector ; 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 ; Put stack base at 0x7000. Stack grows high->low, so we'll grow away from our program text at ; 0x7c00. We reserve the range [0x7000,0x7c00) for globals. mov ss, ax mov sp, 0x7000 ; Segment for VGA (0xb800 * 16 = 0xb8000) mov ax, 0xb800 mov fs, ax mov di, 0x7000 ; Store boot drive number mov ds:[di], dl ; Get drive geometry mov di, 0x00 mov ah, 0x08 int 0x13 jb panic mov ds:[di + 1], dl ; 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 word fs:[0x0004], 0xc021 hlt panic: mov ax, 0x0003 int 0x10 mov word fs:[0x0000], 0x4f46 mov word fs:[0x0002], 0x4f41 mov word fs:[0x0004], 0x4f49 mov word fs:[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 ($ - $$) > 440 %error "exceeded mbr bootstrap field size" %endif ; Pad to the end of the MBR bootstrap field times 440 - ($ - $$) db 0 ; Unique disk ID dd 0x00000000 ; Reserved dw 0x0000 ; Zero the partition fields ; TODO: fill in the field pointing to the GPT table times 510 - ($ - $$) db 0 ; Boot signature db 0x55 db 0xaa