Course Questions

Q: I am wondering, are all the BIOS in 16 bits? Is that an industry standard?

Hello Yes the bios is a 16 bit program on all architectures . Basic input output system is what those letters stand for Many thanks Dan

Q: Did something happen with the order of these lectures? I came back from the weekend and everything from this lesson to "...

EDIT: Also, pressing Next Lesson always takes me to the wrong lesson much earlier in the course now.

Q: Hi! In chapter 45 "Starting To Create Our FAT Filesystem" I have come up against a problem. When I try to set up the d...

Hi Stephen, I always recommend people not to use WSL and to follow the course on Ubuntu. Please follow the course on a Ubuntu virtual machine and your problem will be solved. Thank you Dan

Q: Hello, is it possible to view all of theses offline? thanks.

Hi, The development team at dragon zap are currently working on a desktop app that will allow download but as of present time your only able to watch with an internet connection Thanks

Q: Besides osdev.org & Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, are there any other resources you can recommend for supplemental readin...

Hi Well my course does go into a lot of depth and I'll be making a part 2 soon. Other than the resources you've recommend I can't recommend anything else Thanks

Q: Dumb question, Is this course agnostic to processor architecture, or specific to Intel x86? Thanks.

Hi Thanks for the question, theirs no dumb questions from my students don't worry, always ask away. This course pacifically targets Intel x86 and compatible instruction sets. AMD is compatible with Intel processors supporting majority of the instructions of Intel. It would be pretty easy to retarget another processor after you finish the course if you chose too. You'd need to recreate the boot loader entirely but most C code could stay exactly the same Hope that answers your questions Thanks Dan