Building an Operating System from scratch
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Introduction and Design
Bootloader
- Part 2-1: Boot protocol & bootloader architecture
- Part 2-2: Boot sector and initial loading (BIOS)
- Part 2-3: Implementing a basic filesystem
- Part 2-4: Config file parsing
- Part 2-5: ELF parsing and loading
- Part 2-6: Memory detection and management
- Part 2-7: Graphics mode setup
- Part 2-8: Module loading (initrd, etc.)
- Part 2-9: Setting up paging and switching to long mode
- Part 2-10: UEFI bootloader for x86-64
- Part 2-11: UEFI bootloader for RISC-V
- Part 2-12: Testing and debugging bootloaders
Articles in this section
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Part 1-1: What is an operating system?
If you’ve been around technology long enough, you are probably familiar with these pieces of software called operating systems: Windows, Linux, …
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Part 1-2: Design decisions
Introduction
Building an operating system requires making many design decisions. Some of these are easy to change later, while others become deeply …
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Part 1-3: Project Setup
Introduction
Before we can write any actual OS code, we need to set up the project structure, build system, and configuration files. This might seem …
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Part 2-1: Boot Protocol & Bootloader Architecture
Introduction
In the previous part, we set up the basic project structure and got a simple “Hello World” working. Now we need to think …