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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Hello World Bootloader

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In this lecture you create your very first boot loader that can be booted from any machine

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Understanding Real Mode?

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Real mode is a legacy mode in Intel/AMD processors. Learn all about it here

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Segmentation Memory Model

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In this lecture you learn how memory segmentation works

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Improving Our Bootloader

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We improve our bootloader that we made on the first lesson

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Preparing our bootloader to be booted on real hardware

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In this lecture we prepare our bootloader so that it can be booted on real hardware outside of the virtual machine

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Writing our bootloader to a USB stick

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In this lecture we burn our boot-loader to a USB stick so that we can boot from it

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Booting the bootloader

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In this lecture we restart our computers and boot from the USB stick. No operating system is required, our code runs on its own!

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

The Interrupt Vector Table Explained

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This lecture discusses the interrupt vector table in detail

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Implementing our own interrupts in real mode

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Disk Access And How It Works

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Reading from the hard disk

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

What Is Protected Mode?

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In this lecture you will learn the basics of protected mode which is essential for modern kernel development

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Switching To Protected Mode

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In this lecture you learn how to switch to protected mode

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Restructuring Our Project

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Enabling the A20 line

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Creating a Cross Compiler So We Can Code In C

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Loading our 32 bit kernel into memory and working with debugging symbols

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In this lecture we load the 32 bit kernel into memory

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Cleaning our object files

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

Dealing With Alignment Issues

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Kernel Development For Beginners Tutorial! 08 Apr

C Code In Protected Mode

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Text Mode Explained

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Implementing the VFS fopen function

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Implementing FAT16 fopen function

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Implementing the VFS fread function

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Implementing FAT16 fread functionality

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