From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a37:6895:: with SMTP id d143mr121420193qkc.94.1561481802339; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:56:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a05:6830:1316:: with SMTP id p22mr2074587otq.329.1561481801923; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!m24no4113080qtm.0!news-out.google.com!e20ni89qta.0!nntp.google.com!m24no4113072qtm.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:56:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=146.5.2.29; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.5.2.29 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Setting up a bare metal x86 toolchain From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:56:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56760 Date: 2019-06-25T09:56:41-07:00 List-Id: If you're doing bare-metal, you'll need a boot-loader. Some years ago I started writing an OS in BP7, and I found a boot-loader which would load an exe directly. I'm 90% sure the program I used for this was BOOTPROG -- https://github.com/alexfru/BootProg -- but if it wasn't, then it was one of the programs in 'dsutil12.zip' here: http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/disk2/DISC2/TURBOPAS/00_INDEX.HTM