Boot-related stuff

This directory contains files related to the boot process of a system:

• efi/ directory contains programs which can be built for a UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) platform, as well as a script to boot these programs from QEmu using Tianocore UEFI firmware (OVMF)
• mbr/ directory contains code and documentation about the MBR (Master Boot Record) of disks and 16-bit x86 BIOS interrupts.

Related web links

General information about operating system internals:

• http://littleosbook.github.io/ The little book about OS development
• http://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html linux-internals - A series of posts about the linux kernel
• http://lxr.linux.no/linux-old+v1.0/ Linux 1.0 source
• http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-i386-Boot-Code-HOWTO/index.html Linux i386 Boot Code HOWTO

Implementation of x86 BIOS bootloaders which get in 64-bit mode:

• https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/Pure64 Pure64 - The BareMetal OS kernel loader
• https://github.com/IanSeyler/rustboot64 A tiny 64 bit kernel written in Rust